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An Integrated Approach To Determining The Sequence Of Machining Operations For Prismatic Parts With Interacting Features, Alan C. Lin, Shou Yee Lin, Das Diganta, Wen F. Lu
An Integrated Approach To Determining The Sequence Of Machining Operations For Prismatic Parts With Interacting Features, Alan C. Lin, Shou Yee Lin, Das Diganta, Wen F. Lu
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This paper proposed a framework for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and mechanistic models in the task of generating process plans for prismatic parts. The main issue of process planning addressed in this paper is the determination of the operation sequence for mechanical parts containing interacting features where machining of one feature might adversely affect the surface quality of other features. The informed graph-search strategy in AI is used to achieve the function of operation sequence planning. The search graph is built by considering alternative machining operations in converting a blank stock into the final part configuration. Several heuristic functions …