Entropic evaluation of assemblability in concurrent approach to assembly planning

Author

Fujimoto, Hideo ; Ahmed, Alauddin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

306

Lastpage

311

Abstract

This paper describes a comprehensive method for automation of assembly planning. It reports on the developments made by the authors in assembly modeling and assembly sequence planning. Then an evolutionary and interactive assembly planning (EIAP) method is described where the potential of the virtual environment as a user interface to evaluate the assembly sequence is investigated. Finally, to avoid biased or unrepresentative inputs, this paper introduces a unique evaluation for assemblability of the product based on information entropy. This paper concludes by exploiting the interesting feature of this newly introduced measure for assemblability that it can be used for disassemblability measurement in the same approach

Keywords

assembly planning; computer aided production planning; concurrent engineering; entropy; evolutionary computation; interactive systems; user interfaces; EIAP; assemblability; assembly modeling; assembly planning automation; assembly sequence evaluation; assembly sequence planning; concurrent approach; disassemblability measure; entropic evaluation; evolutionary interactive assembly planning; information entropy; user interface; virtual environment; Application specific processors; Assembly; Automation; Doped fiber amplifiers; Information entropy; Mechanical engineering; Neural networks; Product development; User interfaces; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Assembly and Task Planning, 2001, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7004-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISATP.2001.929040

Filename

929040