... Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Pipeline assembly Pipeline processing Virtual assembly Optimal pose estimation Optimization with constraints Pipeline systems are essential components in ships, aircrafts, rockets and other industrial...

...Enrique Gallegos-Nieto; Hugo I. Medellin-Castillo; Yan Xiu-Tian; Jonathan Corney Purpose This study aims to present a new haptic-enabled virtual assembly system for the automatic generation and objective assessment of assembly plans. The system is intended to be used as an assembly planning tool...

... are inefficient and costly, and they cannot predict problems in installation and use. Based on physical modeling, computer-aided cable design and assembly can effectively solve these problems. This paper aims to address virtual assembly (VA) of flexible cables based on physical modeling. Design/methodology...

... the evaluation of a design is rather qualitative and based on the perception of the user. This is in comparison to automated processes where an algorithm makes decisions about a given component configuration. One of the first immersive virtual assembly tool (the functional prototype being available in 1995...

...JingRong Li; YuHua Xu; JianLong Ni; QingHui Wang Purpose Hand gesture-based interaction can provide far more intuitive, natural and immersive feelings for users to manipulate 3D objects for virtual assembly (VA). A mechanical assembly consists of mostly general-purpose machine elements...

... factors Maintainability design Virtual maintenance Virtual assembly Maintainability issues are the fundamental problems of complex equipment throughout its entire life cycle. As an important product character, maintainability has become a highly significant evaluation indicator in the economic...

...Germanico Gonzalez-Badillo; Hugo I. Medellin-Castillo; Theodore Lim; James M. Ritchie; Raymond C.W. Sung; Samir Garbaya Purpose – In this study, a new methodology to evaluate the performance of physics simulation engines (PSEs) when used in haptic virtual assembly applications is proposed...

... the degrees of freedom of virtual objects and enhance the virtual assembly performance. Findings – To evaluate the effectiveness and performance of HAMS, the assembly of various mechanical components has been carried out, and the results have shown that it can be effectively used to simulate, evaluate...

... of this paper is to investigate the design and implementation of a haptic‐based virtual assembly system (HVAS). Design/methodology/approach A multi‐thread system structure was designed, an automatic data integration interface was developed to transfer geometry, topology, assembly and physics information...