Polyhedral assembly partitioning using maximally covered cells in arrangements of convex polytopes

International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-199

  Guibas, Leonidas J ^a   Halperin, Dan ^b   Hirukawa, Hirohisa ^c   Latombe, Jean Claude ^a   Wilson, Randall H ^d,e  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrangements of polytopes; Assembly partitioning; Assembly planning; Linear programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 2842610218     PISSN: 02181959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218195998000102     Document Type: Article

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