The objective of this research is the development of an effective design of an assembly line for heaters production by taking into consideration work measurement, line balancing and ergonomic problems. As the assembly line is still not in existence and no data are available, it is quite difficult to evaluate, for each assembly line workstation, the work assignment, the assembly times as well as...

Natural ventilation is one of the vital means for passive energy-efficient design in green buildings. As a widely used building façade, perforated plate mostly utilized appearance decoration, noise absorption, and sun shading, but its impact on natural effect has rarely been paid attention to. In this study, influence perforation rate, size, shape flow coefficient were simulated using commercia...

Nowadays, most of the manufactured objects are designed using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software. Nevertheless, for visualization, data exchange or manufacturing applications, the geometric model has to be discretized into a 3D mesh composed of a finite number of vertices and edges. But, in some cases, the initial model may be lost or unavailable. In other cases, the 3D discrete representatio...

The ability to perform both causal (means-end) and geometric reasoning is important in order to achieve autonomy for advanced robotic systems. In this paper, we describe work in progress on planning for a humanoid two-arm robotic system where task and path planning capabilities have been integrated into a coherent planning framework. We address a number of challenges of integrating combined tas...