A new contactless conveyor system for handling clean and delicate products using induced air flows

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2351-2356

  Delettre, Anne ^a   Laurent, Guillaume J ^a   Le Fort Piat, Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CUSHION; AIR FLOW; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; CONTACT LESS; CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; GLASS SHEET; IDENTIFICATION OF THE PARAMETERS; ONE DIMENSION; POSITION TRACKING; REFERENCE SIGNALS;

AIR; CONVEYORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651504160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5652194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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