Analysis of fixturing quality for a variable number of fixturing points and friction values

Author

Penalba, F. ; Rosell, J. ; Suárez, R.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Ind. & Control Eng. (IOC), Tech. Univ. of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

17-20 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

39

Abstract

This paper copes with the automatic determination of fixturing points on 2D and 3D free-form objects, for any number of fixturing points and a variable friction coefficient at the contacts. A software tool that implements the searching algorithm, and that is also able to analyze the quality of any given fixturing, is presented. An analysis on 2D and 3D objects has been performed with this tool, that allows to determine how many points are necessary and which coefficient of friction is required in each case in order to fix the object with a given quality. The tool has been released as open software.

Keywords

fixtures; friction; mechanical contact; production engineering computing; contacts; fixturing points; fixturing quality analysis; friction coefficient; friction values; manufacturing process; searching algorithm; software tool; Algorithm design and analysis; Assembly; Fingers; Fixtures; Friction; Manufacturing automation; Performance analysis; Pulp manufacturing; Software algorithms; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Assembly and Manufacturing, 2009. ISAM 2009. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Suwon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4627-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4628-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAM.2009.5376935

Filename

5376935