Assembly Planning
This subarea of computer aided manufacturing involves automatically
determining a sequence of motions to assemble a product from its
individual parts. The motions can include part motions, grasping
locations, tool access, fixture planning, factory layout, and many other
issues, all of which have complex geometric components that use
computational geometry techniques (or should). Most assembly planners
have only considered a small subset of such issues.
Related areas:
computer aided manufacturing,
grasping and fixturing,
robot motion planning.
- Assembly sequence planning bibliography, J. Wolter, Texas A&M U.
- Automation of assembly operations on parts,
J. P. Baartman, T. U. Delft.
Includes also sections on grip planning.
- Directory
of Assembly Planning Research, Sandia Labs.
- IEEE
Robotics & Automation Soc.,
Assembly & Task Planning Technical Committee
- Intractability of assembly sequencing, and/or scheduling, and removing a unit disk, M. Goldwasser and R. Motwani, 1st CGC Worksh. Computational Geom.
The authors show that even simple abstractions of assembly planning
problems are computationally difficult.
- Ivy environment for assembly planning, Iowa State Visualization Lab.
- Stanford Assembly Analysis Tool, Robotics Lab., Stanford U.
Part of
Geometry in Action,
a collection of applications of computational geometry.
David Eppstein,
Theory Group,
ICS,
UC Irvine.
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