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Quantity analysis methods have the drawback of not giving the designer an overall picture of the<br />
stability of the assembly and its components. In order to create stable designs, the designer needs to have<br />
a global picture. He has to know the directions in which the subassembly is quite stable, and the directions<br />
in which it is marginally stable or totally unstable. The quality method, which can be incorporated in<br />
the design phase, is proposed to analyze the stability.<br />
While manipulating objects, humans instinctively adopt arm configurations that very efficiently utilize<br />
the motion and strength capabilities of the arm. In the same spirit, while performing a task, one can<br />
exploit the motion and load capabilities of a kinematic mechanism by choosing cofigurations that maximize<br />
or minimize the kinematic and dynamic transmission characteristics, depending on the task requirements.<br />
The optimal direction for effecting a force is the direction in which the transmission ratio of the<br />
mechanism to the force is at a maximum. This direction also corresponds to the direction of application<br />
of the assembly force while maintaining a stable system. During the design process, a stability index can<br />
be derived based on variations in the velocities, forces, inertia, stiffness, and d<strong>amp</strong>ing in the system. The<br />
stability index enables comparison of stabilities of various subassemblies and then choosing the best<br />
assembly design.<br />
Feasible Approach Directions and Precedence Constraints<br />
Feasible approach directions is a set of vectors that describe the approaching direction of removing a<br />
part from its assembled pace without interference. In general, the disassembly directions are the reverse<br />
of assembly directions since the problem of finding how to assemble a set of parts can be converted into<br />
an equivalent problem of finding how the same parts can be disassembled (Woo, 1987).<br />
In this section, we will introduce how to derive the feasible approach directions from a polyhedralrepresented<br />
model (Nnaji, 1992; Yeh, 1992). The inputs are mainly the mating faces. Wherever there is<br />
a planar contact between two parts, the parts can be approached in any direction in the half space created<br />
by the mating face. Thus if F � {f 1, f 2 ,…, f j} represents a face set of all planar mating faces for a part,<br />
then the set of approach directions due to the ith mating face is given by:<br />
Here n i is the unit normal vector to the ith mating face. The set of resultant approach directions due to<br />
all the j mating faces is<br />
Once the final assembly is configured, the assembly precedence constraints can be obtained by analyzing<br />
feasible-approach directions. A part cannot be assembled or disassembled if there is an object<br />
crossing the assembly directions. In disassembling objects, once an object covers another object, the<br />
assembly direction of the object below will be blocked until the object above is removed. In the assembly<br />
structure, if the parts have the spatial relationships with the same ancestors and do not block the assembly<br />
of its offspring, then these parts have the same precedence. For ex<strong>amp</strong>le, in surface mounting, chips are<br />
mounted on a PCB, so the chips will always have the spatial relationships with PCB only. Consequently,<br />
the assembly precedence is the same for these chips. With the feasible-approach directions and precedence<br />
constraints, the exploded view of the assembly model can be automatically generated and the precedence<br />
of assembly/disassembly sequences can be automatically verified.<br />
Kinematic Modeling with Spatial Relationships<br />
Spatial relationships configure the assembly by constraining the degrees of freedom between mating components.<br />
The assembly configuration and remaining degrees of freedom are the input to kinematics analysis.<br />
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