Trajectory generation for open-contoured structures in robotic fibre placement

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 380-394

  Shirinzadeh, Bijan ^a   Cassidy, Gary ^a   Oetomo, Denny ^a   Alici, Gursel ^b   Ang Jr, Marcelo H ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Composites; Open contoured structures; Path planning; Robotic fibre placement; Uniform lay up

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; MOTION PLANNING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

OPEN CONTOURED STRUCTURES; PATH PLANNING ALGORITHMS; ROBOTIC FIBRE PLACEMENT (RFP); UNIFORM LAY UPS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33947600266     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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