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1外文翻譯專業(yè)機械設(shè)計制造及其自動化學(xué)生姓名班級學(xué)號指導(dǎo)教師2MULTI-OBJECTIVEOPTIMALFIXTURELAYOUTDESIGNINADISCRETEDOMAINDianaPelinescuandMichaelYuWangDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringUniversityofMarylandCollegePark,MD20742USAE-mail:AbstractThispaperaddressesamajorissueinfixturelayoutdesign:toevaluatetheacceptablefixturedesignsbasedonseveralqualitycriteriaandtoselectanoptimalfixtureappropriatewithpracticaldemands.Theperformanceobjectivesconsideredarerelatedtothefundamentalrequirementsofkinematiclocalizationandtotalfixturing(form-closure)andaredefinedastheworkpiecelocalizationaccuracyandthenormanddistributionofthelocatorcontactforces.Anefficientinterchangealgorithmisuaedinamultiple-criteriaoptimizationprocessfordifferentpracticalcases,leadingtopropertrade-offstrategiesforperformingfixturesynthesis.I.INTRODUCTIONProperfixturedesigniscrucialtoproductqualityintermsofprecisionandaccuracyinpartfabricationandassembly.Fixturingsystems,usuallyconsistingofclampsandlocators,mustbecapabletoassurecertainqualityperformances,besidesofpositioningandholdingtheworkpiecethroughoutallthemachiningoperations.Althoughthereareafewdesignguidelinessuchas3-2-1rule,automatedsystemsfordesigningfixturesbasedonCADmodelshavebeenslowtoevolve.Thisarticledescribesaresearchapproachtoautomateddesignofaclassoffixturesfor3Dworkpieces.Thepartsconsideredtobefixturedpresentanarbitrarycomplexgeometry,andthedesignedfixturesarelimitedtotheminimumnumberofelementsrequired,i.e.sixlocatorsandaclamp.Furthermore,thefixelsaremodeledasnon-frictionalpointcontactsandarerestrictedtobeappliedwithinagivencollectionofdiscretecandidatelocations.Ingeneral,thesetoffixturelocationsavailableisassumedtobeapotentiallyverylargecollection；forexample,thelocationsmightbegeneratedbydiscretizingtheexteriorsurfacesoftheworkpiece.Thegoalofthefixturedesignistodeterminefirst,fromtheproposeddiscretedomain,thefeasiblefixtureconfigurationsthatsatisfytheform-closureconstraint.Secondly,thesetsofacceptablefixturedesignsareevaluatedon3severalcriteriaandoptimalfixturesareselected.Theperformancemeasuresconsideredinthisworkarethelocalizationaccuracy,andthenormanddistributionofthelocatorcontactforces.Theseobjectivescoverthemostcriticalerrorsourcesencounteredinafixturedesign,thepositionerrorsandtheunwantedstressinthepart-fixtureelementsduetoanoverloadedorunbalancedforcesystem.Theoptimalfixturedesignapproachisbasedonaconceptofoptimumexperimentdesign.Thealgorithmdevelopedevaluatesefficientlytheadmissibledesignsexploitingtherecursivepropertiesinlocalizationandforceanalysis.Thealgorithmproducestheoptimalfixturedesignthatmeetsasetofmultipleperformancerequirements.II.RELATEDWORKLiteratureongeneralfixturingtechniquesissubstantial,e.g.,1.Theessentialrequirementoffixturingisthecentury-oldconceptofformclosure2,whichhasbeenextensivelystudiedinthefieldofroboticsinrecentyears3,4.Thereareseveralformalmethodsforanalyzingperformanceofagivenfixturebasedonthepopularscrewtheory,dealingwithissuessuchaskinematicclosure5,contacttypesandfrictioneffects6.Adifferentanalysisapproachbasedonthegeometricperturbationtechniquewasreportedin7.Anautomaticmodularfixturedesignprocedurebasedonthismethodwasdevelopedin8toincludegeometricaccessconstraintsinadditiontokinematicclosure.Theproblemofdesigningmodularfixturesgainedmoreattentionlately9.Therehasalsobeenextensiveresearchinfixturedesigns,focusingonworkpieceandfixturestructuralrigidity6,toolaccessibilityandpathclearance7.Theproblemoffixturesynthesishasbeenlargelystudiedforthecaseofafixednumberoffixtureelements(orfixels)8,10,particularlyintheapplicationtoroboticmanipulationandgraspingforitsobviouseasons3,4.Thisarticleaimstobeanextensionoftheresultsonthefixturedesignissuespreviouslyreportedin14.III.FIXTUREMODELThefundamentalperformanceofafixtureischaracterizedbythekinematicconstraintsimposedontheworkpiecebeingheldbythefixture.Thekinematicconditionsarewellunderstood3,4,5,7,12.Forafixtureofnlocators(i=1,2,n),thefixturecanberepresentedby:y=GTqwheredefinesmallperturbationsinthelocatorpositionsandthelocationoftheworkpiecerespectively.Thefixturedesignisdefinedbythelocatormatrixiwhereandniandridenotethesurfacenormalandpositionattheithcontactpointontheworkpiecesurface.Theproblemoffixturedesignrequiresthesynthesisofafixturingschemetomeetagivensetofperformancerequirements.IV.QUALITYPERFORMANCECRITERIAFORAFIXTUREA.AccurateLocalizationAnessentialaspectoffixturequalityistopositionwithprecisiontheworkpieceintothefixturingsystem.Ingeneraltheworkpiecepositionalerrorsareduetothegeometric4variabilityofthepartandthelocatorsset-uperrors.Thispaperwillfocusonlyontheworkpiecepositionalerrorsduetothelocatorpositioningerrors.Asanextensionofthefixturemodelequation(eq.1),thelocatorpositioningerrorsycanberelatedwiththeworkpiecelocalizationerrorqasfollows:Clearly,forgivensourceerrorstheworkpiecepositionalaccuracydependsonlyonthelocatorlocationsbeingindependentfromtheclampingsystem,theFisherinformationmatrixMGGTcharacterizingcompletelythesystemerrors.Ithasbeenshown12thatasuitablecriteriontoachievehighlocalizationaccuracyistomaximizethedeterminantoftheinformationmatrix(Doptimality),i.e.,maxdetM.B.MinimalLocatorContactForcesAnotherobjectiveinplanningafixturelayoutmightbetominimizeallsupportforcesatthelocatorcontactregionsthroughoutalltheoperationswithcompletekinematicrestraintorforce-closure.Locatorcontactforcesinresponsetotheclampingactionaregivenas:Normalizingtheseforceswithrespecttotheclampingintensityweobtain:Theforce-closureconditionrequirestheseforcestobealwayspositiveforeachlocatoriofasetofnlocators:Computi