System for interactive assembly modelling

✍ Scribed by David Neville Rocheleau; Kunwoo Lee

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 801 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4485
• DOI: 10.1016/s0010-4485(87)80047-7

✦ Synopsis

A technique is developed that allows a designer to interactively create an assembly of components by specifying mating conditions between the individual components. Once the relationships between components via the mating conditions are established, each component's location and orientation in the final assembly is computed. The joint information for a kinematic and dynamic analysis can be derived from the mating condition~ therefore this work may be extended to incorporate this analysis.

Through this development, it will no longer be necessary for a designer to specify cumbersome and error prone transformation matrices to create an assembly. The designer will also be able to perform a kinematic or a dynamic analysis directly from an assembly model if the joint information can be automatically derived.

Assembly modelling, components, data structure, Newton-Raphson iteration