Assembly Automation: Volume 19 Issue 3
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The international journal of assembly technology and managementTable of contents
Part feeding: in search of the universal “turning” machine
Ken GoldbergExamines the available sources for current research into improving the performance of mechanical part feeders.
New generation servomotors
Yoshihiro KusudaDuring the past couple of years advances in technology have dramatically improved servomotor torque performance, and reduced their size and weight to one third compared to…
Monitoring cavity pressure perfects injection molding
Christopher CollinsOnly continuously monitoring cavity pressure allows the detailed recording of the injection molding process in the injection, compression and holding pressure phases. It alone…
The reality of virtual reality
Brian RooksThe application of virtual reality (VR) in industry was the subject of a seminar at Cadcentre in Cambridge. The event, organised for UK VR Forum, the UK DTI’s VR awareness…
Inexpensive conveyor‐based parts feeding
Kevin M. LynchThis paper describes a manipulation primitive called toppling – knocking a part over. We derive the mechanical conditions for toppling and describe two applications to…
Tuning robotic part feeder parameters to maximize throughput
Dadi Gudmundsson, Ken GoldbergWe study a programmable robotic part feeder that relies on a sequence of three conveyor belts to singulate and re‐circulate parts. In industrial practice, belt speeds are set in…
Generating training data for neural‐network‐based pose recognition in parts feeding
William R. Murray, Daniel A. BillingsleyThe capability of an artificial neural network to determine part pose by processing image data from the silhouette of a back‐lit part has been established in recently reported…
ISSN:
0144-5154e-ISSN:
1758-4078ISSN-L:
0144-5154Renamed to:
Robotic Intelligence and AutomationOnline date, start – end:
1980 – 2022Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedEditor:
- Prof Hong Qiao