On clamping planning in workpiece-fixture systems

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 407-419

  Xiong, Cai Hua ^b   Wang, Michael Yu ^a,c   Xiong, You Lun ^b  

^a IEEE

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Clamping planning; Contact forces; Elastic deformation; Fixture; Force closure

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLAMPING DEVICES; CURVE FITTING; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; FIXTURES (TOOLING); FUNCTION EVALUATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PILE FOUNDATIONS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; ACTIVE ELEMENT (AE); CLAMPING FORCES; CONSTRAINED NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINED NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; CONTACT FORCES; ELASTIC CONTACTS; EXTERIOR PENALTY FUNCTION METHOD (EPFM); EXTERNAL LOADS; FIXTURING; FORCE CLOSURE; GENERAL METHOD; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT METHODS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; MINIMUM NORM; NON-LINEAR COUPLINGS; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; NORMAL LOADS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION (OF); PASSIVE ELEMENTS; PLANNING METHOD; POWER GRASPS; WORK PIECE QUALITY; WORK-PIECE (WP); WORKPIECE-FIXTURE SYSTEMS;

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 46849112027     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2008.921483     Document Type: Article

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