Assembly process modeling for virtual assembly process planning

Ye, Jun; Liu, Jianhua; Ru-xin, Ning; Zhang, Ye

doi:10.1080/09511920400030153

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“…It, therefore, attracted great interest from researchers dealing with assembly planning. The advantages of applying virtual engineering for assembly process planning were summarised by Jun et al [132]. From the concurrent engineering perspective, it is preferable to implement the assembly and disassembly process in a virtual environment at an early stage of design, when only the geometric forms are determined and the functions can still be defined [132,133].…”

Section: Virtual Assembly Modelling and Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design verification and validation in product lifecycle

2010

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Section: Virtual Assembly Modelling and Simulationmentioning

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Design verification and validation in product lifecycle

2010

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“…Designers can pick up the whole cable harness to adjust its position and orientation in the three-dimensional environment and at the same time stretch and contract the cable harness by manipulating the control points to change the cable shape. When the shape and position of the cable harness are determined, its connectors can be mounted onto the destination component through automatic constraint identification technique [13]. Besides, designers can dynamically modify the cable harness model during the cable harness planning process, such as inserting shown as in Fig.…”

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Product lifecycle-oriented virtual assembly technology

Ru-xin

Liu

et al. 2006

Front. Mech. Eng. China

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VA (virtual assembly) provides a more efficient, intuitive and convenient method for assembly process modeling, simulation and analysis. Previous researches about VA are almost isolated and dispersive, and have not established the understanding and definition of VA from a macroscopical and integrated view. Based on the analysis of the connotations of VA, a PLO-VATA (product lifecycle-oriented virtual assembly technology architecture) is proposed, in this architecture, VA is decomposed into four basic elements: principles and methodology of DFA (design for assembly), assembly analysis and evaluation, virtual assembly model and virtual assembly toolkits. Immersion, concurrence, integration and collaboration are the four main characteristics of VA being put forward. The key techniques of VA including virtual assembly model, virtual assembly analysis and evaluation, and virtual assembly process planning are discussed. Finally, a prototype system is built to validate the feasibility of the proposed method.

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“…Rubio et al (2005) have reviewed the state of the art of virtual reality (VR) for the next-generation manufacturing; VR is stated as a low-cost, secure and fast analysis tool and it is a very helpful and valuable work tool for the simulation of manufacturing systems. A virtual assembly approach was proposed to model assembly processes (Jun et al 2005). Pappas et al (2006) proposed a web-based platform for collaborative process and product design evaluation; this platform provides real-time collaboration of multiple users at different sites on the same project.…”

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Computer integrated reconfigurable experimental platform for ergonomic study of vehicle body design

2010

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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A computer integrated reconfigurable experimental platform is introduced for the ergonomic studies of vehicle body design. Its hardware system consists of lights and camera equipment, and most importantly, many movable parts whose positions and orientations can be adjusted to meet various requirements of ergonomic study. The movements of these parts are driven by actuators. Its software components are a control system, a visualisation system, and a data acquisition system. The control system is operated by human beings to issue the motion commands for system reconfiguration, the visualisation system monitors the reconfigurable platform in the reconfiguration process and ergonomic studies, and the data acquisition system acquires all meaningful data in the integrated experiment platform. Those data include the positions and all movable parts, the status of lighting and camera equipment, and trajectories and postures when a test driver enters or exits the platform. These data can be utilised to optimise the vehicle exterior components to meet the ergonomic needs of different drivers.In this paper, the virtual control and the validation of system set-up are mainly discussed. System architecture is presented, and the designs of hardware and software components are introduced. Two graphical user interface (GUI) systems have been developed for the control and the visualisation of the reconfigurable experimental platform. The visibility study is conducted to ensure a type of motion tracking equipment is appropriate to collect the data of entering and exiting movements by a driver during experiments.

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Assembly process modeling for virtual assembly process planning

Cited by 31 publications

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Design verification and validation in product lifecycle

Design verification and validation in product lifecycle

Product lifecycle-oriented virtual assembly technology

Computer integrated reconfigurable experimental platform for ergonomic study of vehicle body design

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