Gripper point contacts for part alignment

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 902-910

  Zhang, Mike Tao ^a   Goldberg, Ken ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Grasping; Gripper; Part alignment; Part feeding; Toppling manipulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FEEDING; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MECHANICS; ROBOTICS;

GRIPPER POINT CONTACTS; PART ALIGNMENT; PART FEEDING; TOPPLING MANIPULATION;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 0036969362     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.805657     Document Type: Article

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