Development of an automatic mold polishing system

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 393-397

  Tsai, Ming J ^a   Chang, Jou Lung ^a   Haung, Jian Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automatic mold polishing (AMP); Polishing path planning; Polishing process planning

Indexed keywords

FORCE CONTROL; ROBOTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AUTOMATIC MOLD POLISHING (AMP); POLISHING PATH PLANNING; POLISHING PROCESS PLANNING;

POLISHING;

EID: 27644520381     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2005.853723     Document Type: Article

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