Abstract It is widely accepted that stamping process planning for the strip layout is a key task in progressive die design. How- ever, stamping process planning is more of an art rather than a science. This is in spite of recent advances in...

Abstract A lathe attachment has been developed for an existing CNC machine (installed with rapid prototyping attachment) using conceptual design. The CNC machine operates on mechatronic controls and a computer interface called CAMSOFT, and...

INTRODUCTION Mathematical models of dynamic systems are required in most areas of scientific inquiry and take various forms, such as differential equations, state-space equations and transfer functions. The most widely used approach to math...

Abstract The effects of hot runner system on injection moulding process and properties of injected part have been investigated from various aspects in comparison with conventional runner system. A two-cavity mould which can be used for bot...

In this paper, the visual servoing problemis addressed by coupling nonlinear control theorywith a convenient representationof the visual information used by the robot. The visual representation, which is based on a linear camera model, is e...

Abstract The paper compares various approaches to imple- menting a compliant Cartesian behavior for robotic manipulators: impedance, admittance and stiffness control. A new controller structure is proposed, which consists of an impedance con...

Abstract. The dispersion of pollutants from naturally ventilated underground parking garages hasbeen studied in a boundary layer wind tunnel. Two idealized model setups have been analysed,one was simulating pollutant dispersion around an iso...

Abstract In this paper, a new approach has been developed to recognize the CAD models through their face adjacency relations and attributes and to automatically assemble the recognized parts in a CAD environment. Adjacent faces and the face...

Silva, R.; Martnez, M.L.; Hesp, P.; Catalan, P.; Osorio, A. F.; Martell, R.; Fossati, M.; Miot da Silva, G.; Mario-Tapia, I.; Pereira, P.; Cienfuegos, R.; Klein, A., and Govaere, G., 2014. Present and future challenges of coastal erosion in...

Abstract This paper proposes an integrated evolutionary optimization algorithm (IEOA) which is combined with genetic algorithm (GA), random tabu search method (TS) and response surface methodology (RSM). This algorithm, in order to improve...