Representation: Structural complexity of assemblies to create neural network based assembly time estimation models

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2012, Pages 99-109

  Miller, Michael G ^a   Mathieson, James L ^a   Summers, Joshua D ^a   Mocko, Gregory M ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Dfa; Graphs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ASSEMBLY TIME; DFA; ESTIMATION MODELS; GRAPH; INPUT DATAS; NETWORK-BASED; NEURAL-NETWORKS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; SUB ASSEMBLY; TIME ESTIMATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84884665842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2012-71337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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