Integrated product design and assembly planning in an augmented reality environment

Assembly Automation

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 345-359

  Ng, L X ^a   Wang, Z B ^b   Ong, S K ^a   Nee, A Y C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Assembly; Augmented reality; Bare hand interaction; Design; Design and assembly evaluation; Ergonomics; Integrated design and assembly

Indexed keywords

BARE-HAND; DESIGN AND ASSEMBLIES; DESIGN GENERATION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EARLY DESIGN STAGES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; INTEGRATED PRODUCTS;

AUGMENTED REALITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84884483512     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AA-10-2012-058     Document Type: Article

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