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COMGEO
1998
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Computing fence designs for orienting parts
A common task in automated manufacturing processes is to orient parts prior to assembly. We consider sensorless orientation of a polygonal part by a sequence of fences. We show th...
Robert-Paul Berretty, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Mark H....
CGF
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Translational Covering of Closed Planar Cubic B-Spline Curves
Spline curves are useful in a variety of geometric modeling and graphics applications and covering problems abound in practical settings. This work defines a class of covering dec...
Cristina Neacsu, Karen Daniels
ICRA
1999
IEEE
75views Robotics» more  ICRA 1999»
13 years 8 months ago
Trap Design for Vibratory Bowl Feeders
The vibratory bowl feeder is the oldest and still most common approach to the automated feeding (orienting) of industrial parts. In this paper we consider a class of vibratory bow...
Robert-Paul Berretty, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Lawrenc...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
97views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Gripping Parts at Concave Vertices
ct A simple gripper with two vertical cylindrical jaws can make contact with external or internal concavities in polygonal and polyhedral parts to align and grip parts in form clos...
K. Gopalakrishnan 0002, Kenneth Y. Goldberg