Contactless active force closure manipulation using multiple air jets

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4154-4160

  Hiroshi, Morimasa ^a   Toshiro, Noritsugu ^b   Yoshihiro, Yamamoto ^a   Yuriko, Suzuki ^c   Satoshi, Iwaki ^a   Minoru, Kobayashi ^d   Motoki, Sasaki ^a   Masanori, Yanai ^e  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTTCOMWARE   (Japan)

^d NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e SMC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air jet; Contactlsee object manipulation; Control; Force closure

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FORCES; AIR JET; AIR NOZZLES; CONTACT LESS; CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; EXTENDED RANGE; FORCE CLOSURE; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; OBJECT MANIPULATION; STREAM JET; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES;

COLD STORAGE; COMPRESSED AIR; CYBERNETICS; JETS;

AIR EJECTORS;

EID: 78751536351     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5642402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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