Large-scale assembly of solar power plants with parallel cable robots

Joint 41st International Symposium on Robotics and 6th German Conference on Robotics 2010, ISR/ROBOTIK 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 999-1004

  Pott, Andreas ^a   Meyer, Christian ^a   Verl, Alexander ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATION IPA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CABLE-DRIVEN; FINAL ASSEMBLY; PARALLEL CABLE ROBOT; PARALLEL ROBOTS; REPETITIVE PROCESS; ROBOT SYSTEM; SOLAR PANELS; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SUPPLY;

CABLES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84881448935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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