Intelligent design approach for vacuum suction cup units in aircraft flexible assembly

  • Yi Qiu*
  • , Guolei Zheng
  • , Hongyong Zheng
  • , Fang Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Vacuum suction cups are key subassembly used in flexible fixture for aircraft flexible assembly system; it becomes an important issue in intelligent design to rapid design and automatic location of vacuum cups. In this paper, typical structure and properties of vacuum suction cups used in aircraft flexible assembly are analyzed; A general definition model-semantic model employed in developed Flexible Fixture CAD (FFixCAD) to support and implement automatic selection, rapid modeling and automatic location of standard/typified components is also introduced; Integrated with FFixCAD, an intelligent design approach based on process-conditions for vacuum suction cups is presented accordingly. Based on 3D semantic model definition, a typical components database of vacuum suction cups is built firstly; by establishing a "process reasoning mechanism" and introducing "geometric formula" to build up the relationship between external parameters and process conditions, vacuum suction cups can be automatically designed and installed; consequently, the design efficiency of flexible fixture is increased. This approach can also be spread to other general modular fixture design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIFCSTA 2009 Proceedings - 2009 International Forum on Computer Science-Technology and Applications
Pages146-149
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 International Forum on Computer Science-Technology and Applications, IFCSTA 2009 - Chongqing, China
Duration: 25 Dec 200927 Dec 2009

Publication series

NameIFCSTA 2009 Proceedings - 2009 International Forum on Computer Science-Technology and Applications
Volume3

Conference

Conference2009 International Forum on Computer Science-Technology and Applications, IFCSTA 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChongqing
Period25/12/0927/12/09

Keywords

  • Fixture design
  • Flexible assembly
  • Flexible fixture
  • Intelligent CAD
  • Vacuum suction cup

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