CAD-directed automatic assembly sequence planning

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 3069-3100

  Gu, P ^a   Yan, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FACTORY AUTOMATION; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PLANNING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

ASSEMBLY SEQUENCES; CONNECTIVE GRAPHS; DIRECTED AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE PLANNING; FEATURE BASED REPRESENTATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SMALLTALK; TASK PLANNING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0029404297     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207549508904862     Document Type: Article

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