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Design of Robotic Work Cells: Synthesis and Application

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Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering

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The problem of designing robotic work cells has become a major field of research. Basically, this involves difficult issues like choosing suitable robots and placing them properly in the environment, as well as planning feasible time-optimal trajectories. Clearly, no global solution to this problem exists. Commercial robotic CAD systems, however more and more efficient, answer partially the questions of the designer.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Automatique de Nantes, U.A. CNRS 823 Ecole Centrale de Nantes, 1 rue de la Noe, BP 92101, 44321, Nantes Cedex 03, France

    P. Wenger

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Cybernétique de Nantes, École Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France

    P. Chedmail

  2. Laboratoire de Productique et Logistique, École Centrale de Paris, Châtenay-Malabry, France

    J.-C. Bocquet

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    D. Dornfeld

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Wenger, P. (1997). Design of Robotic Work Cells: Synthesis and Application. In: Chedmail, P., Bocquet, JC., Dornfeld, D. (eds) Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5588-5_23

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