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Modern product design and manufacturing process are highly integrated and exposed to frequent changes. This has made information reuse play an increasingly important role in improving the efficiency of the product development process. Mechanical Assembly Sequence Planning (MASP) is a key issue in the manufacturing of a product. Known methods for MASP are not satisfactory from the aspect of information reuse. This paper proposes an Answer Set Programming (ASP) based solution to MASP, where information reuse is enhanced by dividing an ASP program into EDB (extensional database) and IDB (intensional database) such that IDB can be shared by all the assemblies with the same number of parts. Compared with other approaches for MASP, this is a great advantage. Experiments are conducted to show the applicability and performance of our method by using different answer set solvers.
This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60803033, 60663005, 60903079, and 60963010), and Guangxi Natural Science Foundation of China (GuiKeQing 0728093, 0728089, and 0542036).
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Zhao, L., Wang, X., Qian, J., Gu, T. (2010). Using ASP to Improve the Information Reuse in Mechanical Assembly Sequence Planning. In: Zhang, BT., Orgun, M.A. (eds) PRICAI 2010: Trends in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15246-7_36
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