KBAP: an industrial prototype of knowledge-based assembly planner

Author

Delchambre, Main ; Gaspart, Pierre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Autom., CRIF/WTCM-Res. Centre for the Belgian Metalworking Ind., Brussels, Belgium

fYear

1992

fDate

12-14 May 1992

Firstpage

2404

Abstract

Delchambre (1990, 1991) and Delchambre and A. Wafflard (1991) presented an automatic and user-friendly approach to computer-aided assembly planning. The authors give a brief summary of the assembly planner´s specifications and of the methodology used to generate the assembly. Industrial case studies are presented to illustrate the various stages of the assembly sequence generation. User-friendly formalisms to represent the intermediate and final results to the user are outlined. The proposed approach is user-friendly because the intermediate and final results presented were easily understandable by the user despite the combinatorial explosion of results. The industrial prototype of the assembly planner and the user interaction with the system are discussed. Several results obtained with this prototype are presented and discussed on the basis of the industrial case studies

Keywords

CAD/CAM; assembling; knowledge based systems; planning (artificial intelligence); user interfaces; KBAP; assembly sequence generation; computer-aided assembly planning; industrial prototype; knowledge-based assembly planner; user interaction; user-friendly approach; Assembly systems; Automation; Computer industry; Explosions; Gas industry; Manufacturing industries; Metals industry; Production; Prototypes; Robotic assembly;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1992. Proceedings., 1992 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2720-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220104

Filename

220104