This paper outlined a feature-based inspection process planning system for co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs). The inspection process planning system is designed to produce an inspection process planning directly from CAD model. The prototype inspection process planning system includes ®ve functional modules: the tolerance feature analysis, accessibility analysis, clustering algorithm, path ...

General metrological inspection planning is among the least explored CAPP domains. This paper explores certain basic issues involved in inspection planning using case-based reasoning in an environment of a Generic CAPP Support System. Firstly, algorithmic methods for characterizing and extracting inspection features are proposed and discussed. A sequential knowledge based filtering method is de...

Abstract Inspection planning approaches so far have focused on automatically obtaining an optimal set of viewpoints required to cover a given object. While research has provided interesting results, the automatic inspection still not been made part everyday system development process. This is mostly because plans are difficult verify and it impossible compare them laboratory-developed plans. In...

Abstract Designing appropriate quality-inspections in manufacturing processes has always been a challenge to maintain competitiveness the market. Recent studies have focused on design of in-process inspection strategies for assembly based probabilistic models. Despite this general interest, practical tool allowing assessment adequacy alternative is still lacking. This paper proposes framework a...

Engineering—Mechanical) INFORMATION-DRIVEN SENSOR PATH PLANNING AND THE TREASURE HUNT PROBLEM by Chenghui Cai Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Duke University

Traditionally pavement inspections are conducted using manually operated instruments, and hence are very labor-intensive. In this study, the authors propose the idea of using an autonomous robot to perform the pavement inspections, including for evenness and distress. Because inspection instruments are assumed to be mounted on the robot’s platform, this robot is capable of inspecting pavement c...

This paper describes an activity model for dimensional inspection planning that bridges the gap between product design and the dimensional measurement of manufactured products. Functionally, this model specifies requirements for developing a part of a product data exchange standard that enables design, inspection resource, and measurement data to be exchanged among computer aided design systems...

Inspection planning is an important activity in process industries, and one of the key tools used for such planning is the risk based inspection (RBI) methodology. The RBI is commonly used in planning of inspections for static mechanical equipment, in particular piping networks. The inspections are prioritized based on risk, expressed as expected values, integrating the likelihood and consequen...

In CPP, we are given a set of actions (assumed deterministic in this paper), a distribution over initial states, a goal condition, and a real value 0 < θ ≤ 1. We seek a plan π such that following its execution, the goal probability is at least θ. Motivated by the success of the translation-based approach for conformant planning, introduced by Palacios and Geffner, we suggest a new compilation s...