Modular Fixturing
Goal: Automatically generate useful modular fixture designs
Refer:
Solved
- Developed complete algorithm to enumerate all fixture
designs capable of repeatedly positioning and holding a given swept
volume part
- Extended Algorithm to handle generalized polygonal objects
MPeg Movies:
- Modular Fixturing Demo ( 4.3M Mpeg |
1.5M Mpeg )
This video shows a demonstration of my modular fixturing algorithm running in real time. The object is input using the freely distributed Interviews "idraw" editor, and then the idraw file is processed by a perl script to produce a representation suitable for my fixturing algorithm. Then, the modular fixturing algorithm is run and many candidate fixutre designs are enumerated. Each of these is displayed in a separate X window.
- Fixture Vise Simulation ( 1.1M Mpeg | 0.9M Mpeg | 1.4M Mpeg )
This video shows a simulation of the modular fixturing technique using Brian Mirtich's Impulse simulator.
Papers
Nominated for Anton Phillips Best Student Paper Award:
Modular Fixture Design for Generalized Polyhedra
A. Wallack and J. Canny,
In Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1996
Planning for Modular and Hybrid Fixtures
A. Wallack and J. Canny,
to be published in Algorithmica Special Issue on Manufacturing Applications of Computational Geometry
Planning for Modular and Hybrid Fixtures
A. Wallack and J. Canny
In Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation
San Diego, California, 1994
Last update: 31 January 1995