AutoAssem: An automated assembly planning system for complex products

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 669-678

  Xu, Li Da ^a,b   Wang, Chengen ^c   Bi, Zhuming ^d   Yu, Jiapeng ^c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

design of assembly; Digital manufacturing; enterprise systems (ES); industrial informatics; modeling and simulation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF ASSEMBLIES; DIGITAL MANUFACTURING; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS; MODELING AND SIMULATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION PLANNING; SPEED REDUCERS; VISUALIZATION; WORM GEARS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84864564598     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2012.2188901     Document Type: Article

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