Automatic generation of robot and manual assembly plans using octrees

Assembly Automation

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-183

  Medellin, Hugo ^a   Corney, Jonathan ^b   Ritchie, James ^c   Lim, Theodore ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly; Automation; Manual handling; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION; ASSEMBLY PLANNING; AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY; AUTOMATIC GENERATION; COMPLEX ASSEMBLY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN MODELS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; MANUAL ASSEMBLY; MANUAL HANDLING; OCTREE DECOMPOSITION; OCTREE MODEL; OCTREE REPRESENTATION; OCTREES; PROTOTYPE MODELS; PROTOTYPING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77951871703     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445151011029817     Document Type: Article

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