Precisely positioning pallets in multi-station assembly systems

Precision Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 218-231

  Vallance, R Ryan ^a   Morgan, Chris ^b   Slocum, Alexander H ^c  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly automation; Flexible assembly systems; Kinematic couplings; Pallets; Split groove coupling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER CONTROL; DATA ACQUISITION; ELASTIC MODULI; ERROR ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; ROBOTS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION; FLEXIBLE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; KINEMATIC COUPLINGS; SPLIT-GROOVE COUPLING;

PALLETS;

EID: 1842579086     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2002.11.003     Document Type: Article

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