Precise manipulation approach to facilitate interactive modular fixture assembly design in a virtual environment

Assembly Automation

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 216-224

  Gaoliang, Peng ^a   Xu, He ^b   Haiquan, Yu ^a   Xin, Hou ^a   Alipour, Khalil ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Assembly; Component manufacturing; Constraint handling; Virtual work

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; MODELS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY; COMPONENT MANUFACTURING; CONSTRAINT HANDLING; CONSTRAINT SOLVING; CONSTRAINT-BASED; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FIXTURE ELEMENTS; FUZZY COMPREHENSIVE JUDGMENT; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; HYBRID METHODS; INTERACTIVE ASSEMBLY; MODULAR FIXTURES; OBJECT MANIPULATIONS; PHYSICAL MODELLING; PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; PRECISE MANIPULATION; PRECISE POSITIONING; RULE-BASED REASONING; VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY; VIRTUAL DESIGN; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING; VIRTUAL REALITY (VR); VIRTUAL WORK;

FIXTURES (TOOLING);

EID: 48349110966     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445150810889475     Document Type: Article

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