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Fantong Meng1, Guolin Yang1, Jiankun Yang2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of High-Performance Precision Manufacturing, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|April 13, 2024
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Accurate robotic drilling in aerospace manufacturing requires precise workpiece surface normal measurement. This study introduces a parametric method and simulation to optimize sensor layout, significantly reducing measurement errors for improved drilling accuracy.

Keywords:
assembly holelaser displacement sensornormal measurement accuracyrandom samplingrotationally symmetric layout

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