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This paper copes with the automatic determination of fixturing points on 2D and 3D free-form objects, for any number of fixturing points and a variable friction coefficient at the contacts. An approach is proposed that, starting from an initial set of points, successively finds a better set by changing only one point at a time following an heuristic search procedure that uniformly explores the object surface. A software tool that implements this approach is also presented. This tool also allows to analyze the quality of any given set of fixturing points, which has allowed us to determine how many points are necessary for a given coefficient of friction in order to fix 2D and 3D objects with a given quality. The tool has been released as open software.
This work was partially supported by the Spanish Government through the projects DPI2007-63665 and DPI2008-02448.
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Rosell, J., Suárez, R., Penalba, F. (2010). Automatic Determination of Fixturing Points: Quality Analysis for Different Number of Points and Friction Values. In: Lee, S., Suárez, R., Choi, BW. (eds) Frontiers of Assembly and Manufacturing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14116-4_5
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