Control and experimental validation of robot-assisted automatic measurement system for Multi-Stud Tensioning Machine (MSTM)

@article{Li2016ControlAE,
  title={Control and experimental validation of robot-assisted automatic measurement system for Multi-Stud Tensioning Machine (MSTM)},
  author={Meng Li and Xingguang Duan and Hao Li and Tengfei Cui and Liang Gao and Yue Zhan and Yan Xu},
  journal={2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year={2016},
  pages={2816-2821},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18975800}
}
A robot-assisted automatic measurement system to achieve meter placement and real-time data monitoring for multi-Stud Tensioning Machine and total operation time decreases from over 580 s to less than 120 s.

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