Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Tolerance Analysis With Polytopes in HV-Description
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This article proposes the use of polytopes in HV-description to solve tolerance analysis problems. Polytopes are defined by a finite set of half-spaces representing geometric, contact, or functional specifications. However, ... -
Identification of Similar and Complementary Subparts in B-Rep Mechanical Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Content-based retrieval is particularly important for exploiting company model databases and online catalogs. To allow the identification of reusable part models possibly fitting with the product under development, methods ... -
An Ontology for Reusable and Executable Decision Templates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Engineering design is increasingly recognized as a decision making process. Providing decision support is crucial to augment designers' decision-making capability in this process. In this paper, we present a template-based ... -
Adaptive Mission Planning and Analysis for Complex Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a new method for complex system failure analysis and adaptive mission planning that provides both an overall failure analysis on a system's performance as well as a mission-based failure analysis. The ... -
Motion Imitation Based on Sparsely Sampled Correspondence
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Existing techniques for motion imitation often suffer a certain level of latency due to their computational overhead or a large set of correspondence samples to search. To achieve real-time imitation with small latency, ... -
Reverse Engineering and Geometric Optimization for Resurrecting Antique Saxophone Sound Using Micro-Computed Tomography and Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The saxophone mouthpiece is an important, sound generating component of this instrument. The structure of mouthpiece has undergone several design changes since its invention by Adolphe Sax in the mid-18th century. Very few ... -
Automatic Discovery of Design Task Structure Using Deep Belief Nets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)With the arrival of cyber physical world and an extensive support of advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, nowadays it is possible to obtain the footprints of design activities through emails, design journals, ... -
Supply Chain Performance Evaluation With Rough Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis Model: Noncooperative Stackelberg Game Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Rapidly changing environment has affected organizations' ability to maintain viability. As a result, various criteria and uncertain situations in a complex environment encounter problems when using the traditional performance ... -
A Task-Driven Approach to Unified Synthesis of Planar Four-Bar Linkages Using Algebraic Fitting of a Pencil of G-Manifolds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper studies the problem of planar four-bar motion generation from the viewpoint of extraction of geometric constraints from a given set of planar displacements. Using the image space of planar displacements, we ... -
Immersive Distributed Design Through Real-Time Capture, Translation, and Rendering of Three-Dimensional Mesh Data1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)With design teams becoming more distributed, the sharing and interpreting of complex data about design concepts/prototypes and environments have become increasingly challenging. The size and quality of data that can be ... -
Application of Digital Human Models to Physiotherapy Training
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The importance of physiotherapy is becoming more significant with the increasing number of countries with aging populations. Thus, the education of physiotherapists is a crucial concern in many countries. Information and ... -
Sample-Based Synthesis of Functionally Graded Material Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Spatial variation of material structures is a principal mechanism for creating and controlling spatially varying material properties in nature and engineering. While the spatially varying homogenized properties can be ... -
A Review of the Capabilities of Current Low-Cost Virtual Reality Technology and Its Potential to Enhance the Design Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In the past few years, there have been some significant advances in consumer virtual reality (VR) devices. Devices such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Leap Motion™ Controller, and Microsoft Kinect® are bringing immersive ... -
Evaluating the Use of Artificial Neural Networks and Graph Complexity to Predict Automotive Assembly Quality Defects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents the use of subassembly models instead of the entire assembly model to predict assembly quality defects at an automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Specifically, artificial neural networks ... -
Toward Knowledge Management for Smart Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The need for capturing knowledge in the digital form in design, process planning, production, and inspection has increasingly become an issue in manufacturing industries as the variety and complexity of product lifecycle ... -
Design of a Linkage System to Write in Cursive
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a design methodology for a system of linkages that can trace planar Bezier curves that represent cursive handwriting of the alphabet and Chinese characters. This paper shows that the standard degree n ... -
SFTA-Based Approach for Safety/Reliability Analysis of Operational Use-Cases in Cyber-Physical Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The software is often responsible for controlling the behavior of mechanical and electrical components, as well as interactions among these components in cyber-physical systems (CPS). The risks in CPS systems could result ... -
A Reverse Compensation Framework for Shape Deformation Control in Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Shape deformation is a well-known problem in additive manufacturing (AM). For example, in the stereolithography (SL) process, some of the factors that lead to part deformation including volumetric shrinkage, thermal cooling, ... -
A Human-Centered Design of General-Purpose Unmanned Electric Vehicle Chassis for Agriculture Task Payload
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents the design process of a novel general-purpose electric vehicle chassis as agriculture payload carrier platform to perform agricultural tasks: detection, guidance, mapping, and action. This design applied ... -
Efficient Design Module Capture and Representation for Product Family Reuse
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)New business models and more integrated product development processes require designers to make use of knowledge more efficiently. Capture and reuse are means of coping, but support, techniques, and mechanisms have yet to ...