Green processes are very important for the implementation of green technologies in
production to achieve positive sustainability outcomes in the Industry 4.0 era. The scope of …

Jigs and fixtures are key production equipment in manufacturing by fulfilling the tasks of
positioning, supporting, and fixing the components to be joined. They are also a significant …

Even though the robotic machining has achieved great success in machining of small
components, it lacks the competence to machine large complex components, such as wind …

Basic work holding devices (eg vices), fixtures and jigs are used to construct a critical
interface between a workpiece and an end-effector. This interface performs two main …

A reasonable supporting device and effective supporting control strategy is the key to
ensuring the stable progress of mirror milling. The complexity, nonlinearity, and external …

A reconfigurable fixture is an important enabler to cope with increasing product variety and
shorter lifecycles, since it helps to change between product variants more efficiently and …

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) have the potential to reduce investments,
time-to-market, and cost of variety in increasingly complex markets. However, tools to …

Due to the low rigidity, the milling process of cantilever thin-walled structure (CTWS)
inevitably generates machining-induced deformation, ultimately resulting in poor surface …

The paper describes an innovative fixture created within the AUTORECON project of the
European Commission's 7th Framework Program. The fixture is designed to respond to the …

The paper presents a systematic approach to robot control system design. The robot is
treated as an embodied agent decomposed into effectors, receptors, both real and virtual …