Assembly sequence planning of automobile body components based on liaison graph

Assembly Automation

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-164

  Xing, Y ^a   Chen, G ^a   Lai, X ^a   Jin, S ^a   Zhou, J ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Assembly; Automatic programming; Automotive industry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASSEMBLY; AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GRAPH THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ADJACENCY MATRIX; AUTOMOBILE BODY COMPONENTS; LIAISON GRAPH; MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY SEQUENCES;

AUTOMOBILE BODIES;

EID: 34247093754     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445150710733423     Document Type: Article

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