A Virtual Environment for Manufacturing Systems
Abstract
From October to December 1992, the research on Assembly Planning Through Visualization has been focused on the development and implementation of algorithms for proposing disassembly trajectories. One of the graduate students has been working on the development of a new set of algorithms for generating potential assembly/disassembly directions for components with free-form surfaces. To generate potentially feasible disassembly directions, an O(n logical and 2 alpha(n)) time algorithm has been developed for computing the spherical convex hull of a possibly self intersecting spherical curve consisting of n algebraic curved segments, where alpha(n) is the functional inverse of Ackermann's function and is a extremely slow growing function of n.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA260813
Entities
People
- J. H. Oliver
- L. L. Chen
- M. J. Vanderploeg