Abstract: A technique to perform design calculations on imprecise representations of parameters has been developed and is presented. The level of imprecision in the description of design elements is ...

Abstract: Methods for incorporating imprecision in engineering design decision-making are briefly reviewed and compared. A tutorial is presented on the Method of Imprecision (MoI), a formal method, based ...

Abstract: An optoelectronic photogrammetric system to measure the spatial kinematic histories of linkages is presented. A Body Coordinate System approach produces both three-dimensional position and orientation ...

Abstract: The Taguchi method of product design is an experimental approximation to minimizing the expected value of target variance for certain classes of problems. Taguchi’s method is extended to designs ...

Abstract: In the design and manufacture of mechanical devices, there are parameters whose values are determined by the manufacturing process in response to errors introduced in the devices’s manufacture ...