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Intelligent Assembly Modelling and Simulation (IAMS)
Head: Pradeep Khosla
Contact: Pradeep Khosla (pkk@ece.cmu.edu)
Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Advanced Mechatronics Lab
For more information, see this project's homepage.
Designing complex electro-mechanical systems is a complicated problem because of the competing requirements for tight packing and assemblability. In current design practice, designers ofter use physical mock-ups to verify whether assemblability constraints are satisfied. The goal of IAMS is to avoid this expensive and time-consuming process by facilitating assemblability checking in a virtual, simulated environment. In addition to part-part interference checking, the IAMS tool will check for tool accessibility, stability, and ergonomics.