A reverse engineering system for rapid manufacturing of complex objects

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-67

  Li, L ^a   Schemenauer, N ^a   Peng, X ^a   Zeng, Y ^a   Gu, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optical digitizers; Rapid prototyping; Reverse engineering; Surface reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

IMAGE ACQUISITION; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036466657     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-5845(01)00026-6     Document Type: Article

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