Presidential Young Investigator Award: Research in Rapid Assembly and Part Design

本研究的目标是开发工具， 零件设计对制造装配影响可能 从根本上理解并不断改进。 为此目的， 将研究三个目标：（1）发展物理学 零件匹配，应用于零件设计， 制造装配;（2）开发测量工具（灵活性） 这将适用于模型的工件夹具和处理 制造过程的各个方面，分析处理设备， 合成装配系统;（3）实验证明 灵活性作为部件特征通用度量的有用性 设计和制造装配任务。

The goal of this research is to develop the tools by which the impact of part design on manufacturing assembly can be fundamentally understood and continually improved. To this end, three objectives will be investigated: (1) develop the physics of part mating, with application to part design for flexible manufacturing assembly; (2) develop a measurement tool (dexterity) which would be applied to models of the workholding and handling aspects of the manufacturing process, analyze handling devices and synthesize assembly systems; and (3) experimentally demonstrate the usefulness of dexterity as a common measure of part feature design and manufacturing assembly tasks.