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Energy Consumption Reduction of a Cable-Driven Storage and Retrieval System

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This paper addresses multiple strategies to reduce the energy consumption of a rack feeder that is based on cable-driven robot technology. Here, both the hardware design and the trajectories to be followed are optimized.

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Bruckmann, T., Reichert, C., Ji, H. (2019). Energy Consumption Reduction of a Cable-Driven Storage and Retrieval System. In: Lenarcic, J., Parenti-Castelli, V. (eds) Advances in Robot Kinematics 2018. ARK 2018. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93188-3_44

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