INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR MAKING AND EXECUTING SHEET METAL BENDING PLAN

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intelligent system for designing, planning and manufacturing a bent sheet metal.

SOLUTION: A planning module interacts with several expert modules to make a bending plan. The planning module utilizes a state-space search algorithm. A computerized method is provided for selecting a robot gripper and a repo gripper to judge the optimum arrangement of the grippers for holding a work formed by the bending apparatus. A computerized method is provided to select tooling to be used for the bending apparatus and to judge the layout of a tooling stage. The planning system is utilized to assist functions such as design and assembly system, which execute designing, cost calculation, scheduling and/or manufacture and assembly.

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