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    • Improved Skeleton Tracking by Duplex Kinects: A Practical Approach for Real Time Applications 

      Yeung, Kwok; Kwok, Tsz; Wang, Charlie C. L. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Recent development of perframe motion extraction method can generate the skeleton of human motion in realtime with the help of RGBD cameras such as Kinect. This leads to an economic device to provide human motion as input ...
    • Exploring the Effectiveness of Using Graveyard Data When Generating Design Alternatives 

      Foster, Garrett; Ferguson, Scott (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that unique alternative designs can be efficiently found by searching the discarded data (or graveyard) from a multiobjective genetic algorithm (MOGA). Motivation for using ...
    • Combining Variation Simulation With Thermal Expansion Simulation for Geometry Assurance 

      Lorin, Samuel; Lindkvist, Lars; Sأ¶derberg, Rikard; Sandboge, Robert (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      In every set of assembled products, there are geometrical variations and deviations from nominal dimensions. This can lead to products that are difficult to assemble or products not fulfilling functional or aesthetical ...
    • Theory and Algorithms for Weighted Total Least Squares Fitting of Lines, Planes, and Parallel Planes to Support Tolerancing Standards 

      Shakarji, Craig M.; Srinivasan, Vijay (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      We present the theory and algorithms for fitting a line, a plane, two parallel planes (corresponding to a slot or a slab), or many parallel planes in a total (orthogonal) leastsquares sense to coordinate data that is ...
    • Enhancing the Product Realization Process With Cloud Based Design and Manufacturing Systems 

      Wu, Dazhong; Thames, J. Lane; Rosen, David W.; Schaefer, Dirk (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The rise of cloud computing is radically changing the way enterprises manage their information technology assets. Considering the benefits of cloud computing to the information technology sector, we present a review of ...
    • A Representation Based Methodology for Developing High Value Knowledge Engineering Software Products: Theory, Application, and Implementation 

      Desa, S.; Munger, T. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Most enterprises, technology and otherwise, are routinely collecting massive amounts of unstructured information from customer interactions and then attempting to extract knowledge from this information in order to improve ...
    • Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) Based Haptic Simulator for Dental Implant Surgery 

      Zheng, Fei; Feng Lu, Wen; San Wong, Yoke; Weng Chiong Foong, Kelvin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper presents a hapticsbased training simulator for dental implant surgery. Most of the previously developed dental simulators are targeted for exploring and drilling purpose only. The penaltybased contact force ...
    • Batch Process and Sensitivity Analysis of Collision Detection of Planar Convex Polygons in Motion 

      Chen, Cheng (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      A new method for formulation, solution, and sensitivity analysis of collision detection of convex objects in motion is presented. The collision detection problem is formulated as a parametric programming problem governed ...
    • Sample Size Determination in NT Net Quasi Monte Carlo Simulation 

      Huang, Wenzhen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Monte Carlo (MC) technique prevails in probabilistic design simulation, such as in statistical tolerance analysis and synthesis. A quasiMonte Carlo (e.g., number theoretic net method (NTnet)) with better computation ...
    • Developing Large High Resolution Display Visualizations of High Fidelity Terrain Data 

      Chung, Haeyong; North, Chris; Ferris, John (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      The vehicle terrain measurement system (VTMS) allows highly detailed terrain modeling and vehicle simulations. Visualization of largescale terrain datasets taken from VTMS provides better insights into the characteristics ...
    • Why should we care about Cyber Physical Systems? 

      Unknown author (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      For over a decade, this journal has supported and advanced the research and applications at the intersection of information science and mechanical engineering. In that process, it has established itself as a premier outlet ...
    • A Distributed Pool Architecture for Highly Constrained Optimization Problems in Complex Systems Design 

      Pandey, Vijitashwa; Mourelatos, Zissimos P. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Optimal design of complex engineering systems is challenging because numerous design variables and constraints are present. Dynamic changes in design requirements and lack of complete knowledge of subsystem requirements ...
    • Disassembly Process Information Model for Remanufacturing 

      Feng, Shaw C.; Kramer, Thomas; Sriram, Ram D.; Lee, Hanmin; Joung, Che B.; Ghodous, Parisa (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Disassembly is essential to dismantle a product for remanufacturing during maintenance or at the end of service life. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an information model for describing ...
    • A Computational Aid for Problem Formulation in Early Conceptual Design 

      MacLellan, Christopher J.; Langley, Pat; Shah, Jami; Dinar, Mahmoud (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Conceptual design is a highlevel cognitive activity that draws upon distinctive human mental abilities. An early and fundamental part of the design process is problem formulation, in which designers determine the structure ...
    • Automated Manufacturing Planning Approach Based on Volume Decomposition and Graph Grammars 

      Fu, Wentao; Eftekharian, Ata A.; Campbell, Matthew I. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      A new graph grammar based reasoning is proposed to reason about the manufacturability of 3D solid models. The knowledge captured in the graph grammar rules serves as a virtual machinist in its ability to recognize arbitrary ...
    • A Study on Module Clustering and Evaluation of Large Gantry Machining Centers 

      Chen, Weifang; Cao, Lijie; Ye, Wenhua (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Due to the various requirements of users and large volume of machine tools, most machine tool manufacturers are adopting the smalllot production mode, which largely prolongs the product development cycle. To raise the ...
    • Emerging Design Methods and Tools in Collaborative Product Development 

      Red, Edward; French, David; Jensen, Gregory; Walker, Sheli Sillito; Madsen, Peter (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Product development uses the engineering design process to conceptualize and design new products, while relying on computeraided application tools like CAD/CAE/CAM that are unfortunately designed for single users. In the ...
    • Using GPUs for Realtime Prediction of Optical Forces on Microsphere Ensembles 

      Bista, Sujal; Chowdhury, Sagar; Gupta, Satyandra K.; Varshney, Amitabh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Laser beams can be used to create optical traps that can hold and transport small particles. Optical trapping has been used in a number of applications ranging from prototyping at the microscale to biological cell manipulation. ...
    • Energy Consistent Force Feedback Laws for Virtual Environments 

      Mohtat, Arash; Kأ¶vecses, Jأ³zsef (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      When digitally realized, virtual environments (VEs) do not perfectly match the physical environments they are supposed to emulate. This paper deals with energy aspects of such a mismatch, i.e., artificial energy leaks. A ...
    • Inverse Simulation Under Uncertainty by Optimization 

      Du, Xiaoping (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Inverse simulation is an inverse process of a direct simulation. During the process, unknown simulation input variables are identified for a given set of known simulation output variables. Uncertainties such as random ...