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Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics +6

Minimum zone evaluation of surfaces

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Engineering, Computer Science, Optimization +11

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Engineering, Mathematics, Geometric Modeling +13

A new minimum zone method for evaluating straightness errors

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Computing, Computer Science, Computational Geometry +7

A six-degree-of-freedom measurement system for the motion accuracy of linear stages

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Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering +14