Development of closed-loop control of robotic welding processes

Industrial Robot

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 350-355

  Steele, John P H ^a   Mnich, Chris ^a   Debrunner, Chris ^a   Vincent, Tyrone ^a   Liu, Stephen ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Control systems; Robotics; Welding

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; SYSTEM STABILITY; WELDS;

ROBOTIC AUTOMATION; ROBOTIC WELDING; STEREO IMAGES; WELD POOL STABILITY;

WELDING;

EID: 21244462252     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910510600236     Document Type: Article

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