This paper describes the research accomplished by the Industrial Automation Department of CRIF/WTCM in the area of assembly system design. The goal of this project is the integration of the assembly process since the design of the product until the programmation of the assembly cell. The paper presents the structure of the resulting off- line programming system and details two of the most important automatic processes: (1) the assembly planner, and (2) the line design or station allocation. The specific knowledge and the common sense expertise are specified for each module. Several results are presented and discussed on the basis of a concrete case study: a subassembly of a working machine.

Date Published: 1 March 1991
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 1468, Applications of Artificial Intelligence IX, (1 March 1991); doi: 10.1117/12.45480

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1468:
Applications of Artificial Intelligence IX
Mohan M. Trivedi, Editor(s)