Design of a reconfigurable robot arm for assembly operations inside an aircraft wing-box

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 590-595

  Roy, Binayak ^a   Asada, H Harry ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Displacement amplification; Reconfigurable robot arm; Shape memory alloys

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ASSEMBLY; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WINGS;

AIRCRAFT WING BOX; DISPLACEMENT AMPLIFICATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT ARM;

ROBOTIC ARMS;

EID: 33846124631     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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