Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Analysis of Collaborative Design Networks: A Case Study of OpenIDEO
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper presents a largescale empirical study of OpenIDEO, an online collaborative design community. Using network analysis techniques, we describe the properties of this collaborative design network and discuss how it ... -
Computation of the Shortest Path in a Bounded Domain With Free Form Boundary by Domain Partitioning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The shortest path computation is important in industrial automation, especially for robot and autonomous vehicle navigation. However, most of the computations concentrate on computing the shortest path between two points ... -
Inverse Surfacelet Transform for Image Reconstruction With Constrained Conjugate Gradient Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Image reconstruction is the transformation process from a reducedorder representation to the original image pixel form. In materials characterization, it can be utilized as a method to retrieve material composition ... -
Comparison of Graph Generation Methods for Structural Complexity Based Assembly Time Estimation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper compares two different methods of graph generation for input into the complexity connectivity method to estimate the assembly time of a product. The complexity connectivity method builds predictive models for ... -
Monotone Descent Path Queries on Dynamic Terrains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Monotone paths are useful in many engineering design applications. In this paper, we address the problem of answering monotone descent path queries on terrains that are continually changing. A terrain can be represented ... -
Variational Discrete Developable Surface Interpolation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Modeling using developable surfaces plays an important role in computer graphics and computer aided design. In this paper, we investigate a new problem called variational developable surface interpolation (VDSI). For a ... -
Generation of Segmented Triangular Meshes From CT Images Based on Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation and the Graph Cut Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Mesh generation from Xray computed tomography (CT) images of mechanical parts is an important consideration in industrial application, and boundary surface meshes in multimaterial parts can be extracted by generating ... -
Augmented Affective Cognition for Usability Study of In Vehicle System User Interface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Usability of invehicle systems has become increasingly important for ease of operations and safety of driving. The user interface (UI) of invehicle systems is a critical focus of usability study. This paper studies how to ... -
Manufacturing Assembly Time Estimation Using Structural Complexity Metric Trained Artificial Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Assembly time estimation is traditionally a timeintensive manual process that requires detailed geometric and process information, which is often subjective and qualitative in nature. As a result, assembly time estimation ... -
Toward Safe Human Robot Collaboration by Using Multiple Kinects Based Real Time Human Tracking
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)We present a multiple Kinects based exteroceptive sensing framework to achieve safe humanrobot collaboration during assembly tasks. Our approach is mainly based on a realtime replication of the human and robot movements ... -
Assembly Time Estimation: Assembly Mate Based Structural Complexity Metric Predictive Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper presents an automated tool for estimating assembly times of products based on a three step process: connectivity graph generation from assembly mate information, structural complexity metric analysis of the ... -
Using Morphing Techniques in Early Variation Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Today, in order to be competitive in a fierce global car market, higher demands are placed on the perceived quality (PQ) of the products. The end customer's visual impression of fit and finish are one of several factors ... -
A Generative Network Model for Product Evolution
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Modeling the structure and evolution of products is important from the standpoint of improving quality and maintainability. With the increasing popularity of opensource processes for developing both software and physical ... -
Variation Simulation of Stresses Using the Method of Influence Coefficients
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In every manufacturing situation there are geometric deviations leading to variation in properties of the manufactured products. Variation affects the manufacturability, functions and aesthetics of the products. Therefore, ... -
A Novel Pattern for Energy Estimation Framework and Tools to Compute Energy Consumption in Product Life Cycle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Excessive energy consumption has become a worldwide issue in today's design and manufacturing industry. An energy estimation framework that could later be used to integrate with CAD/CAM systems is in demand. This research ... -
Raising Accuracy in Physically Based Simulations Through Scaling Equations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In the recent years, the physically based simulation has been developed and applied to various engineering processes. So far the use of this simulation method was limited to calculate the behavior of objects with large ... -
Multistack Close Range Photogrammetry for Low Cost Submillimeter Metrology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Considerable research effort has been focused on evaluating the accuracy of mesoand macroscale digital close range photogrammetry. However, evaluations of accuracy and applications in the submillimeter scale are rare. In ... -
An Efficient Branch and Bound Algorithm for Interface Based Modular Product Design and Performance Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In our earlier work, we have proposed a cyberinfrastructurebased collaboration system for modular product design. One of the main components of the system is a design repository to which suppliers can upload the descriptions ... -
Mining Functional Model Graphs to Find Product Design Heuristics With Inclusive Design Illustration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Engineering design heuristics offer the potential to improve the design process and resultant designs. Currently, heuristics are empirically derived by experts. The goal of this paper is to automate the heuristics generation ... -
Direct Geometry Processing for Telefabrication
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This paper presents a new approach for telefabrication where a physical object is scanned in one location and fabricated in another location. This approach integrates threedimensional (3D) scanning, geometric processing ...