Using a formal high-level language and an automated manikin to automatically generate assembly instructions. (1st January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mårdberg, Peter; Carlson, Johan S.; Bohlin, Robert; Delfs, Niclas; Gustafsson, Stefan; Högberg, Dan; Hanson, Lars
• Is Part Of: International journal of human factors modelling and simulation. Volume 4:Number 3/4(2014)
• Page Start: 233
• Page End: 249
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Subjects: virtual manufacturing -- manual assembly -- digital human modelling -- programming languages -- simulation -- predetermined motion time system -- PMTS; Human-computer interaction -- Periodicals; Human-machine systems -- Periodicals; 004.019
• DOI: 10.1504/IJHFMS.2014.067180
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-5549

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to automatically generate predetermined motion time system (PMTS) based assembly instruction lists from simulations within digital human modelling (DHM) software. A formal high-level instruction language is used to instruct an automated manikin to perform assembly operations. The manikin, the language and the assembled objects are composed into a discrete model. In a post-computational step, the model is used to construct PMTS instruction lists by mapping the manikin motions, assembled objects and the language instructions onto a set of PMTS keywords. The described approach is implemented in the DHM software IMMA and tested on industrial cases of manual assembly in the automotive industry.