Conceptual design and workspace analysis of reconfigurable fixturing robots for sheet metal assembly

Assembly Automation

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 293-299

  Yu, Hongjian ^a   Li, Bing ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Hu, Ying ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Assembly; Fixture configuration; Parallel; Reconfigurable fixturing robots; Robots; Sheet metal; Workspace analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING; AUTOMOTIVE PARTS; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; FIXTURE DESIGN; FIXTURE ELEMENTS; FIXTURING; KINEMATIC DESIGNS; MODULARIZED DESIGN; PARALLEL; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PRODUCTION LINE; RECONFIGURABILITY; RECONFIGURABLE DESIGNS; SCREW THEORY; SHEET METAL ASSEMBLIES; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS;

ASSEMBLY; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COMPETITION; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; FIXTURES (TOOLING); KINEMATICS; METAL ANALYSIS; ROBOTS; SHEET METAL;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84870262891     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445151211244465     Document Type: Article

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