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Steps toward the design and control of a new generation of machines

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posted on 2018-01-09, 11:55 authored by Ah-Soon Goh
In the face of rapid development in information technology coupled with a growing dynamism in global markets, new concepts of building computer controlled machines have proliferated. Such approaches promise to lead to a new generation of machines which typically share common design objectives. They seek to advance the underlying concepts of contemporary computer controlled machines (such as robots, CNC, etc.) in a way that resultant systems demonstrate attributes of flexibility, extendibility, configurability, openness, modularity and so on. [Continues.]

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MSI Research Institute.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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© Ah Soon Goh

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Publication date

1994

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

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