Designing a dexterous reconfigurable packaging system for flexible automation

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2 B, Issue , 2003, Pages 1033-1039

  Dubey, Venketesh N ^a   Crowder, Richard M ^b  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carton Folding; Flexible Automation; Mechanism Synthesis; Multi fingered Hand; Packaging Machine

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ROBOTS;

CARTON FOLDING; FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION;

PACKAGING MACHINES;

EID: 1842812145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/dac-48812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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