An investigation into the use of spatial coordinates for the genetic algorithm based solution of the fixture layout optimization problem

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 265-275

  Vallapuzha, Subramanian ^a   De Meter, Edward C ^a   Choudhuri, Shabbir ^a   Khetan, Raghunath P ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b DELPHI CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixture layout optimization; Fixturing; Genetic algorithm

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; MACHINING; OPTIMIZATION;

FIXTURE LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL COORDINATES;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 0036027402     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(01)00113-4     Document Type: Article

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