Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1679308 | CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology | 2014 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The necessity to manage several vehicle models on the same robotized assembly cell has made the cell design and the robot off-line motion planning two fundamental activities. Industrial practice and state-of-the-art methods focus on the technical issues of each activity, but no integrated approach has been yet proposed, resulting in a lack of optimality for the final cell configuration. The paper introduces a formalization of the whole process and proposes a heuristic multi-stage method for the identification of the optimal combination of cell design choices and motion planning. The proposed architecture is depicted through a real case for welding application.
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Authors
Stefania Pellegrinelli, Nicola Pedrocchi, Lorenzo Molinari Tosatti, Anath Fischer, Tullio Tolio,