An easily reconfigurable robotic assembly system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2586-2591

  Maeda, Yusuke ^a   Kikuchi, Haruka ^b   Izawa, Hidemitsu ^a   Ogawa, Hiroki ^a   Sugi, Masao ^a   Arai, Tamio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NTT DOCOMO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GRIPPERS; MANIPULATORS;

DECENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE; SEMI-AUTOMATED CALIBRATION METHOD;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0345308335     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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