Symbolic calculus for volumetric reasoning about process plans

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 183-198

  Lee, Huaming ^a   Scott, Jon ^a   Williams, Jon Sims ^a   Cox, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjacency interpenetration; Feature volume; Object geometry; Object topology; Ownership; Problem space; Reverse analysis strategy; Topologic inference; Volumetric reasoning; Volumetric removal

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROCESS CONTROL; TOPOLOGY;

ADJACENCY INTERPENETRATION; FEATURE VOLUME; OBJECT GEOMETRY; OBJECT TOPOLOGY; REVERSE ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGIC INFERENCE; VOLUMETRIC REASONING; VOLUMETRIC REMOVAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0030165478     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0890060400001542     Document Type: Article

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