Blades: A new class of geometric primitives for feeding 3D parts on vibratory tracks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1730-1736

  Goemans, Onno C ^a   Goldberg, Ken ^b   Van Der Stappen, A Frank ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MACHINE DESIGN; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CONVEX POLYGONAL METAL; FEEDER TRACK; REORIENTATION; VIBRATORY TRACKS;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 33845646408     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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