Reconfigurable industrial robots—an integrated approach to design the joint and link modules and configure the robot manipulator

Mechanisms and Machine Science

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 779-794

  Valente, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Design and configuration; Reconfigurable industrial robot; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATORS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; DESIGN; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; ROBOTS;

FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN; INDUSTRIAL REQUIREMENTS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL; RECONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; TECHNOLOGICAL FEATURE; TORQUE ASSESSMENTS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84948413702     PISSN: 22110984     EISSN: 22110992     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23327-7_67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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