APE: an experience-based assembly sequence planner for mechanical assemblies

Author

Swaminathan, A. ; Barber, K.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

21-27 May 1995

Firstpage

1278

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to the assembly sequence planning problem based on a “plan reuse” philosophy, called the Assembly Planner using Experience (APE). Assembly planning research in the past has attempted to completely plan each problem from scratch. This research shows that stored cases of basic assembly configurations can be applied to a given assembly problem. It is observed that the number of such basic assembly configurations is quite small. Constraints affecting the assembly are also explicitly handled

Keywords

assembling; case-based reasoning; computer aided production planning; graph theory; planning (artificial intelligence); production control; assembly configurations; case based reasoning; experience-based assembly sequence planner; goal identification; graph based model; mechanical assemblies; Assembly systems; Control systems; Intelligent systems; Job shop scheduling; Laboratories; Manufacturing; Process planning; Production equipment; Production planning; Production systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1965-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1995.525456

Filename

525456