Active fixturing: literature review and future research directions

Fixtures are used to fixate, position and support workpieces and represent a crucial tool in manufacturing. Their performance determines the result of the whole manufacturing process of a product. There is a vast amount of research done on automatic fixture layout synthesis and optimisation and fixt...

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Main Authors: Bakker, Otto Jan, Papastathis, Thomas, Popov, Atanas A., Ratchev, Svetan
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis 2013
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29137/