Authors:
Baha Hasan
;
Jan Wikander
and
Mauro Onori
Affiliation:
KTH, Sweden
Keyword(s):
Assembly Semantic, Assembly Feature, Feature-based Modelling, Ontology, Computer Aided Design (CAD).
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Domain Analysis and Modeling
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontology Sharing and Reuse
;
Semantic Web
;
Soft Computing
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to facilitate the transfer of product data semantics from Computer Aided Design
(CAD) program to assembly process planning (APP) in product life- cycle. In this paper, an approach to
capture, share and transfer assembly design semantic data from SolidWorks (SW) CAD software to
assembly device (robot Sony SRX series) is proposed. The proposed approach is based, on its first stage, on
defining and extracting assembly design semantics from a CAD model using SolidWorks Application
Programmable Interface (SW- API). The second stage of the proposed approach includes sharing and
integrating the extracted assembly design semantics with assembly robot device by using three-layer
ontology structure. In this layered ontology, different types of ontologies are proposed for each layer:
general foundation ontology for the first, domain ontologies for the second and application ontology for the
third. Each of these layers aids in defining concepts, relations and properties
in assembly design domain and
APP domain. Ultimately, the proposed ontology will be used to integrate both domains in product-life cycle.
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