Robotic polishing of precision molds with uniform material removal control

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 885-895

  Tsai, M J ^a   Huang, J F ^a   Kao, W L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automatic polishing; Effective contact area; Free from surface; Uniform material removal model

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MOLD POLISHING; AUTOMATIC POLISHING; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; CONTACT PRESSURES; EFFECTIVE CONTACT; EFFECTIVE CONTACT AREA; FREE-FORM SURFACE; FREE-FROM SURFACE; MATERIAL REMOVAL; NORMAL VECTOR; PRECISION MOLDS; PRINCIPAL CURVATURE; ROBOTIC POLISHING; SURFACE PROFILES; TAGUCHI; UNIFORM MATERIAL REMOVAL MODEL;

MATERIALS; MOLDS; POLISHING; SCANNING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SURFACES;

EID: 67649827310     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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