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Brooks Automation expands control capability of precision industrial robots

Martin Hosek (Martin Hosek is a Senior Controls Engineer at Brooks Automation, Inc., Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA.)
Timothy Bleigh (Timothy Bleigh is a Director of Marketing at Brooks Automation, Inc., Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA.)

Industrial Robot

ISSN: 0143-991x

Article publication date: 1 August 2002

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Abstract

Increasing complexity and aggressive throughput performance of precision robotic manipulators for semiconductor and flat‐panel‐display manufacturing applications require innovative control system architectures and advanced trajectory planning and motion control techniques. Brooks Automation, a global supplier of integrated automation solutions for the semiconductor and flat‐panel‐display manufacturing industries, has developed a number of advances that accelerate technological development in these areas of robot control in an effort to set new industry standards in performance and reliability.

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Hosek, M. and Bleigh, T. (2002), "Brooks Automation expands control capability of precision industrial robots", Industrial Robot, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 334-348. https://doi.org/10.1108/01439910210432902

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MCB UP Ltd

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