... method allows the collaborative and multi-sites design to be performed without requiring significant investments or changes in the company organization. To illustrate this methodology, the collaboration of three European companies on the optimization of a ship hull is described. The hull shape...

...So-Ryeok Oh, Ph.D.; Kalyan Mankala, Ph.D.; Sunil K. Agrawal, Ph.D.; James S. Albus Cable robots have potential usage for loading and unloading of cargo in shipping industries. A novel six-degrees-of-freedom two-stage cable robot has been proposed by NIST for skin-to-skin transfer of cargo...