Method and apparatus for automated assembly

Patent · 01 January 1999

OSTI ID:872641

Jones, Rondall E ^[1]; Wilson, Randall H ^[1]; Calton, Terri L ^[1]

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1. Albuquerque, NM

A process and apparatus generates a sequence of steps for assembly or disassembly of a mechanical system. Each step in the sequence is geometrically feasible, i.e., the part motions required are physically possible. Each step in the sequence is also constraint feasible, i.e., the step satisfies user-definable constraints. Constraints allow process and other such limitations, not usually represented in models of the completed mechanical system, to affect the sequence.

• Research Organization: SANDIA CORP
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• Assignee: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
• Patent Number(s): US 5980084
• OSTI ID: 872641
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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