Planning for Modular and Hybrid Fixtures |
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Authors: | A S Wallack J F Canny |
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Affiliation: | (1) Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. http: //www.cs.berkeley.edu / (wallack,jfc) / (wallack,jfc).html., US |
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Abstract: | Fixturing encompasses the design and assembly of fixtures to locate and hold a workpiece during a manufacturing operation
such as machining or assembly. We have implemented an automated design algorithm for a fixturing toolkit called the fixture
vise; the fixture vise involves two fixture plates mounted on jaws of a vise and modular fixturing elements (pegs or flatted
pegs). Generally, a fixture vise can handle appropriately sized prismatic workpieces in many different ways. The design algorithm
runs in O(A) time, where A is the number of configurations achieving simultaneous contact between the modeled object and four fixture elements; since
simultaneous contact is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for force closure, A provides an upper bound on the number of force closure fixture configurations.
Received June 6, 1994; revised November 17, 1994, February 1, 1995, February 28, 1995, and July 11, 1995. |
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Keywords: | , Modular fixturing, Force closure, |
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