Evaluating part designs for automatic feeding in robotic assembly systems: A geometric analysis of the nesting of polyhedral objects |
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Authors: | D Veeramani T L Morin |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Purdue University, 47907 West Lafayette, IN, USA;(2) School of Industrial Engineering and Program in Computational Combinatorics, Purdue University, 47907 West Lafayette, IN, USA |
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Abstract: | One of the problems encountered by automatic feeding devices, such as vibratory bowl feeders, in robotic assembly systems is nesting which leads to inseparability of parts and jamming. In this paper, we describe a design evaluation procedure to determine whether a part is prone to nesting and to quantify the degree of nesting. The proposed methodology reduces the 3-D protrusion-hole polyhedral containment problem of nesting to a 2-D polygon containment problem by employing a loop-based feature recognition scheme. Subsequently, the 3-D containment configuration is reconstructed from that of the 2-D by using a strategy calleddrop, pull and push. In this context, we introduce the notion of axis as a characteristic direction of a feature that facilitates the analysis of generalized 3-D polyhedral containment. The algorithms are applicable to generic B-Rep CAD data, and their time and space complexities are polynomial. |
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Keywords: | Part-design automatic feeding graph theory algorithms |
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