Multiobjective synthesis of six-bar mechanisms under manufacturing and collision-free constraints

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-48

  Chen, Chiu Hung ^a   Liu, Tung Kuan ^a   Huang, I Ming ^a   Chou, Jyh Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION EQUATIONS; DESIGN SOLUTIONS; DIVERSITY METHOD; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; LINKAGE MECHANISM; MULTI-OBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM; MULTI-OBJECTIVE SYNTHESIS; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT;

MANUFACTURE;

DESIGN;

EID: 84863025422     PISSN: 1556603X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2011.2176996     Document Type: Article

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