Automatic stable assembly sequence generation and evaluation

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 225-235

  Smith, Shana Shiang Fong ^a   Smith, Greg C ^a   Liao, Xiaoyun ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Assembly Planning; Genetic Algorithms; Reorientations; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011901861     PISSN: 02786125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0278-6125(01)80043-1     Document Type: Review

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