文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：On rapid prototyping of assembly systems - a modular approach

作者：Qian, Zhiqin[1];Zhang, Tan[2];Cai, Mengya[1];Lin, Wenjun[3];Zhang, Wenjun[1,3]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Mech & Power Engn, CISRC, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Univ Toronto, Dept Mech & Ind Engn, Autonomous Syst & Biomechatron Lab ASB Lab, Toronto, ON M5S 3G, Canada;[3]Univ Saskatchewan, Adv Engn Design Lab, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada

年份：2018

卷号：56

期号：3

起止页码：220

外文期刊名：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATERIALS & PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY

收录：;EI(收录号：20181504995979);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000433979100003)】；

基金：This research has been partially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China and Shanghai Science and Technology Foundation through an international cooperation grant program (No. 12410709900). The involvement in this study by the corresponding author (W.J. Zhang) is made possible with NSERC DG grant awarded to him.

语种：英文

外文关键词：rapid prototyping of assembly; evolutionary algorithm; modular plastic module; MPM

摘要：This paper proposes a new product and manufacturing technology for rapid prototyping of product systems (RPPSs). It is noted that a system in this paper is defined as a physical assembly that can be decomposed into components. The rapid prototyping is achieved by a novel modular concept, that is, the base materials to build a component as well as an assembly is highly modularised (the interface between any two modules are identical) and building a system is simply by assembling the modules. The rapid prototyping in this paper differs significantly from the rapid prototyping in literature in that the latter builds a system layer by layer and further primarily builds a component instead of assembly (building of an assembly is actually very limited with the latter, though possible). This paper explains the RPPS approach and presents a feasibility study on the RPPS technology. It has been shown that the RPPS technology is promising.