MCAD2Sim: Towards automatic kinematic joints recognition
Publication date
2020
Document type
Research article
Author
Thongnuch, Suthida
Organisational unit
Scopus ID
Publisher
North-Holland Publ. Co.
Series or journal
Computer-Aided Design and Applications
ISSN
Periodical volume
17
Periodical issue
1
First page
44
Last page
60
Peer-reviewed
✅
Part of the university bibliography
✅
Language
English
Abstract
© 2020, CAD Solutions, LLC. All rights reserved. Developing production machines involves engineering processes to transform customer requirements into real machines. Commissioning, which is a bottleneck of the engineering processes, must be better addressed to improve the machine development. To do so, with the help of virtual machines, virtual commissioning (VC) can be performed before the real machine construction with several promising benefits. VC, however, seeks a method to automatically generate detailed virtual machines. The automatic model generation makes VC benefits valid. This paper presents a practical and automatic VC model generation method by applying the constraint-based algorithm to MCAD models. As a result, the static geometry in the models governs kinematic joints and parameters. The proposed MCAD2Sim workflow produces executable kinematic models in the COLLADA format, which is a part of AutomationML and widely used in the industrial automation domain. Furthermore, in this paper, the application of the entire workflow on a mechanical assembly is demonstrated. The results serve as a preliminary solution to the automatic VC model generation for more sophisticated real-world applications.
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