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Bijan Shirinzadeh<br />

Monash University<br />

© 2001 by CRC Press LLC<br />

3<br />

CAD-Based Task<br />

Planning and Analysis<br />

for Reconfigurable<br />

Workholding for<br />

Workpiece Positioning<br />

and Constraining<br />

3.1 Introduction<br />

3.2 Economic Justification<br />

3.3 Flexible Workholding Strategies<br />

Sensory-Based Workholding Techniques • Modular<br />

and Reconfigurable Fixtures • Adaptable<br />

Fixtures • Programmable Conformable Cl<strong>amp</strong>s<br />

• Phase-Change Fixtures • Other Fixturing Techniques<br />

3.4 Reconfigurable Fixture Modules<br />

3.5 Fixture Task Planning and Analysis<br />

Pre-Processor Phase • Fixture Configuration<br />

Planning • Kinematic Analysis<br />

3.6 Fixture Layout Verification<br />

3.7 Interference Detection and Post Processing<br />

Fixture Module Location • Calculation of<br />

Interference • Minimum Separation • Maximum<br />

Separation • Interference Formulation Between Convex<br />

Polyhedral Objects • Sequence of Interference Detection<br />

3.8 Conclusion<br />

Workholding is one of the most basic and necessary processes required for all manufacturing operations,<br />

such as machining, assembly, and joining. Workholding, commonly referred to as fixturing, is performed<br />

to position and constrain the workpiece for presentation to the manufacturing or assembly devices. If<br />

flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are to be truly flexible, then the fixturing process must also be<br />

flexible. This chapter briefly describes the economic justifications for flexible fixturing within computerintegrated<br />

manufacturing (CIM) environment. Various approaches to flexible fixturing are presented.<br />

The reconfigurable workholding (or fixturing) is one of the most appropriate flexible fixturing techniques<br />

for CIM environment. Reconfigurable fixturing employs a number of fixture modules that are set up,

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