Abstract: Robot-mounted grippers are used to position, immobilize, and manipulate parts and assemblies during manufacturing. In the design of these systems, the gripper assembly, comprising the grippers that grasp the part and the ...

Abstract: In graph-based function models, the function verbs and flow nouns are usually chosen from predefined vocabularies. The vocabulary class definitions, combined with function modeling grammars defined at various levels of ...

Abstract: Modern design problems often require multi-modal, reconfigurable solutions. Function modeling is a common tool used to explore solutions in early mechanical design. Currently, function modeling formalisms minimally support ...

Abstract: This paper validates that a previously published formal representation of function structure graphs actually supports the reasoning that motivated its development in the first place. In doing so, it presents the algorithms ...

Abstract: The paper presents a formal representation for modeling function structure graphs in a consistent, grammatically controlled manner, and for performing conservationbased formal reasoning on those models. The representation ...

Abstract: Applying previous solutions to solve new problems is a core aspect of design, and designers routinely use informal analogies to solve a wide variety of design problems. However, when the goal is to consider a large quantity ...