Contactless manipulation of an object on a plane surface using multiple air jets

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3257-3262

  Iwaki, Satoshi ^a   Morimasa, Hiroshi ^a   Noritsugu, Toshiro ^b   Kobayashi, Minoru ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; AIR JET; AIR NOZZLES; CONTACT LESS; CONTACTLESS MANIPULATION; CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; EXTENDED RANGE; STREAM JET; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES;

COMPRESSED AIR; JETS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84868026698     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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