This paper describes a new system to automatically generate, evaluate and execute assembly sequences. With the commands generated by the system, robots are enabled to assemble complex products without explicit robot programming. Our approach uses CAD-models, symbolic spatial relations and a robot work cell description as input. The system provides a user-friendly interface to define the goal st...

Beni Lew, Lolita Trachtengertz, Shany Ratsin, Gideon Oron and Amos Bick* 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel 2 Agriculture Research Organization Volcani Center, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bet Dagan, Israel 3 The Department of Chemical Engineering, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat-Gan, Israel 4 Department of Environment Water Resources, ...

Reverse Engineering is concerned with the problem of creating CAD models of real objects by measuring point data from their surfaces. Current solutions either require manual interaction or expect the nature of the objects to be known. We believe that in order to create a fully automatic system for RE of unknown objects the software that creates the CAD-model should be able to control the operat...

A combined tramp ship routing, fleet deployment, and network design problem I. K. Moon, Z. B. Qiu & J. H. Wang a Department of Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea b LG Electronics Hi Logistics (China) Co., Ltd., No. 9 Wangjing Beilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, China c Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Kore...