傳動箱體工藝與夾具設計銑床夾具設計

傳動箱體工藝與夾具設計銑床夾具設計,傳動,箱體,工藝,夾具,設計,銑床 1ApplicationApplicationApplicationApplication andandandand developmentdevelopmentdevelopmentdevelopmentOfOfOfOf casecasecasecase basedbasedbasedbasedreasoningreasoningreasoningreasoning ininininfixturefixturefixturefixturedesigndesigndesigndesignAbstract:Abstract:Abstract:Abstract: Based on the case baseddesigning(CBD)methodology,thefixture similarity is in two respects: thefunction and the structure information.Then, the computer aided fixture designsystemiscreatedoncasebasedreasoning (CBR),in which the attributesof the main features of workpiece andstructure of fixture as case index codeare designed for the retrieve of thesimilar cases, and the structure andhierarchical relation of case library aresetupforstore.Meanwhile,thealgorithmbasedontheknowledgeguided in the retrieve of the similarcases, the strategy of case adapt at ionand case storage in which the case identif cat ion number is used to distinguishfrom similar cases are presented. Theapplicationofthesysteminsomeprojects improves the design efficiencyand gets a good result .Keywords:Keywords:Keywords:Keywords:casebasedreasoning;fixturedesign;computeraided design(CAD)Fixtures are devices that serveas the purpose of holding the workpiecesecurelyandaccurately,andmaintaining a consistent relationshipwithrespecttothetoolswhilemachining.Becausethefixturestructure depends on the feature of theproduct and the status of the processplanning in the enterprise, its design isthe bottleneck during manufacturing,whichrestrainstoimprovetheefficiency and leadtime. And fixture2design is a complicated process, basedonexperiencethatneedscomprehensive qualitative knowledgeaboutanumberofdesignissuesincludingworkpiececonfiguration,manufacturing processes involved, andmachining environment. This is also avery time consuming work when usingtraditionalCADtools(suchasUnigraphics, CATIA or Pro/E), whichare good at performing detailed designtasks, but provide few benefits fortaking advantage of the previous designexperience and resources, which areprecisely the key factors in improvingthe efficiency. The methodology of casebasedreasoning(CBR)adaptsthesolution of a previously solved case tobuild a solution for a new problem withthe following four steps: retrieve, reuse,revise, and retain 1. This is a moreuseful method than the use of an expertsystemtosimulatehumanthoughtbecause proposing a similar case andapplying a few modifications seems tobe self explanatory and more intuitivetohumans.Sovariouscasebaseddesignsupporttoolshavebeendevelopedfornumerousareas2-4,such as in injection molding and design,architectural design, die castingdiedesign, process planning, and also infixture design. Sun used six digitals tocompose the index code that includedworkpieceshape,machineportion,bushing, the 1stlocating device, the 2ndlocating device and clamping device5.But the system cannot be used for otherfixture types except for drill fixtures,and cannot solve the problem of storageof the same index code that needs to beretained, which is very important inCBR6.1 Construction of a Case Index and3Case Library1.1 Case indexThecaseindexshouldbecomposedofallfeaturesoftheworkpiece,whicharedistinguishedfrom different fixtures. Using all ofthem wouldmake the operation inconvenient. Because the forms of theparts are diverse, and the technologyrequirementsofmanufacture intheenterprise also develop continuously,lots of features used as the case indexwill make the search rate slow, and themainfeatureunimportant,forthereason that the relative weight which isallotted to every feature must diminish.And on the other hand, it is hard toinclude all the features in the caseindex.Therefore,consideringthepracticality and the demand of rapiddesign, the case index includes both themajor feature of the workpiece and thestructure of fixture. The case index codeis made up of 16 digits: 13 digits forcase features and 3 digits for caseidentification number.The first 13 digits represent 13features. Each digit is corresponding toan attribute of the feature, which maybe one of“*”, “？”, “1”, “2”,“A” , “B” , “Z” , etc. In which,“*” means anyone, “?” uncertain,“0” nothing.The system rules: fixture type,workpiece shape, locating model cannotbe “*”or“?”. When the system isdesigned, the attribute information ofthe three items does not have theseoptions,whichmeansthecertainattribute must be selected.The last three digits are the caseidentification number, which means the13 digits of the case feature are the4same, and the number of these threedigits is used for distinguishing them.The system also rules: “000”is aprototypecase,whichisusedforretrieval, and other cases are “001”,“ 002 ” ,which are used forreferencecasestobesearchedbydesigners. If occasionally one of themneeds to be changed as the prototypecase, first it must be required to applyto change the one to “000”, and theformer is changed to referential caseautomatically.The construction of the case indexcode is shown in Fig.1.1.2 Case libraryThe case library consists of lots ofpredefined cases. Case representation isone of the most important issues in casebased reasoning. So compounding withthe index code,.1.3 Hierarchical form of CaseThestructuresimilarityofthefixture is representedas the wholefixture similarity, components similarityand component similarity. So the wholefixture case library, components caselibrary,componentcaselibraryoffixtureareformedcorrespondingly.Usuallydesigninformationofthewhole fixture is composed of workpieceinformation and workpiece procedureinformation, which represent the fixturesatisfyingthespecificallydesigningfunction demand. The whole fixturecase is made up of function components,which are described by the functioncomponentsnames and numbers. Thecomponentscaserepresentsthemembers.(functioncomponentand5other structure components ，maindriven parameter, the number, and theirconstrain relations.)The componentcase (the lowest layer of the fixture) isthe structure of function component andothercomponents.Inthemodernfixturedesigntherearelotsofparametric standard parts and commonnon standard parts. So the componentcaselibraryshouldrecordthespecification parameter and the way inwhich it keeps them.2 Strategy of Case RetrievalInthecasebaseddesignoffixtures ,the most important thing is theretrieval of the similarity, which canhelp to obtain the most similar case, andto cut down the time of adaptation.According to the requirement of fixturedesign, the strategy of case retrievalcombinesthewayofthenearestneighbor and knowledge guided. That is,first search on depth, then on breadth;the knowledge guided strategy means tosearch on the knowledge rule from rootto the object, which is firstly searchedby the fixture type, then by the shape ofthe workpiece, thirdly by the locatingmethod. For example, if the case indexcode includes the milling fixture offixture type, the search is just for allmillingfixtures,thenforboxofworkpiece shape, the third for 1plane+2pine of locating method. If there is nomatch of it, then the search stops ondepth, and returns to the upper layer,and retrieves all the relative cases onbreadth.Retrieval algorithms:1)Accordingtothecaseindexinformationoffixturecaselibrary,search the relevant case library;2)Match the case index code withthe code of each case of the case library,6and calculate the value of the similaritymeasure;3)Sorttheorderofsimilaritymeasure, the biggest value, which is themost analogical case.Similarity between two cases isbased on the similarity between the twocases.features.Thecalculationofsimilarity measure depends on the typeof the feature. The value of similaritycan be calculated for numerical values,for example, compareWorkpiece withthe weight of 50kg and 20kg. The valuecan also be calculated between nonnumerical values, for example, now thefirst 13 digits index code is all nonnumericalvalues.Thesimilaritymeasure of a fixture is calculated asfollows:where S is the similarity measureof current fixture, n is the number of theindex feature,is the weight of eachfeature,is the similaritymeasure of the attributeof the i2thfeature with the attributeof relativefeature of the j-th case in the caselibrary.Atthesametime, the value countsas follows:.Whereis the value of the indexattribute of the i-th feature, andis7the value of attribute of the relative i-thfeature of the j-th case in case library.So there are two methods to selectthe analogical fixture. One is to set thevalue.Ifthevaluesofsimilaritymeasure of current cases were less thana given value, those cases would not beselected as analogical cases. When thecase library is initially set up, and thereare only a few cases, the value can besetsmaller.Iftherearelotsofanalogical cases, the value should getlarger. The other is just to set thenumber of the analogical cases (suchas10), which is the largest value ofsimilaritymeasurefromthesortedorder.3CaseadaptationandCaseStorage3.1 Case adaptationThemodificationoftheanalogical case in the fixture designincludes the following three cases:1) The substitution of componentsand the component;2) Adjustingthedimensionofcomponents and the component whilethe form remains;3) The redesign of the model.If the components and componentof the fixture are common objects, theycan be edited, substituted and deletedwith tools, which have been designed.3.2 Case storageBefore saving a new fixture case inthecase library, the designermustconsider whether the saving is valuable.Ifthecasedoesnotincreasetheknowledge of the system, it is notnecessary to store it in the case library.If it is valuable, then the designer mustanalyzeitbefore savingittoseewhetherthecaseisstoredasaprototype case or as reference case. A8prototype case is a representation thatcan describe the main features of a casefamily. A case family consists of thosecases whose index codes have the samefirst 13 digits and different last threedigits in the case library. The last threedigits of a prototype case are always“000” . A reference case belongs to thesame family as the prototype case andis distinguished by the different lastthree digits.From the concept that has beenexplained, the following strategies areadopted:1) If a new case matches anyexisting case family, it has the samefirst 13 digits as an existing prototypecase, so the case is not saved because itis represented well by the prototypecase. Or is just saved as a referencecase (the last 3 digits are not “000”,and not the same with others) in thecase library.2) If a new case matches anyexisting case family and is thought tobebetteratrepresentingthiscasefamily than the previous prototype case,then the prototype case is substituted bythisnewcase,andthepreviousprototype case is saved as a referencecase.3) If a new case does not matchany existing case family, a new casefamily will be generated automaticallyand the case is stored as the prototypecase in the case library.4ProcessofCBRinFixtureDesignAccording to the characteristics offixture design, the basic information ofthe fixture design such as the name offixture, part, product and the designer,etc. must be input first. Then the fixturefile is set up automatically, in which all9componentsofthefixtureareputtogether.Thenthemodeloftheworkpiece is input or designed. Thedetailedinformationabouttheworkpiece is input, the case index codeis set up, and then the CBR begins tosearch the analogical cases, relying onthe similarity measure, and the mostanalogicalcaseisselectedout.Ifneeded, the case is adapted to satisfythe current design, and restored into thecaselibrary.Theflowchartoftheprocess is shown in Fig.3.5 Illustrating for Fixture Design byCBRThis is a workpiece (seeFig.4). Itsmaterial is 45# steel. Its name is seat.Its shape is block, and the product batchsize is middle, etc.Afixture is turningfixture that serves to turn the hole,which needs to be designed.The value of feature, attribute,case index code and weight of theworkpiece is show n in Tab.2.10Through searching, and calculatingthe similarity, the case index code of themostsimilarcaseis19325513321402000, and the detailedinformation is show n in Tab. 3.The similarity is calculated asfollows:So the value of similarity measureofthefixturewhichneedstobedesigned with the most analogical caseincaselibraryis0.806,andthestructure of the most analogical case isshown in Fig.5.After having been substituted thecomponent,modifiedthelocatingmodel and clamp model, and adjustedthe relative dimension, the new fixtureis designed, and the figure is show n in11Fig.6.As there is not the analogicalfixture in the case library, the newfixture is restored in to the case library.Thecaseindexcodeis19325513311402000.6 ConclusionCBR,asaproblemsolvingmethodology,isamoreefficientmethodthananexpertsystemtosimulate human thought, and has beendevelopedinmanydomainswhereknowledge is difficult to acquire. Theadvantages of the CBR are as follows:itresembleshumanthoughtmoreclosely; the building of a case librarywhichhasselflearningabilitybysaving new cases is easier and fasterthan the building of a rule library; and itsupportsabettertransferandexplanation of new knowledge that ismore different than the rule library.Aproposed fixture design framework onthe CBR has been implemented byusing Visual C +, UG/Open API in Un graphics with Oracle as databasesupport, which also has been integratedwiththe32Dparametriccommoncomponentlibrary,commoncomponents library and typical fixturelibrary.Theprototypesystem,developed here, is used for the aviationproject, and aids the fixture designers toimprove the design efficiency and reuseprevious design resources.