Design and control of paired mobile robots working across a thin plate with application to aircraft manufacturing

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 614-624

  Menon, M ^a   Asada, H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft manufacturing robots; magnetic suspension; mobile tools; paired robots; time optimal control

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING ROBOTS; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION; MOBILE TOOLS; PAIRED ROBOTS; TIME OPTIMAL CONTROL;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; CONTROL; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNETS; MANUFACTURE; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; TRACTION (FRICTION);

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 79960143209     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2010.2102019     Document Type: Article

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