Virtual assembly with biologically inspired intelligence

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-167

  Yuan, Xiaobu ^a   Yang, Simon X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flexible manufacturing; Mechanical assembly; Neural networks; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN OPERATORS; MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY; VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0042672929     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2003.813148     Document Type: Article

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