Journal article
Optimization-Based Layout Design
Applied bionics and biomechanics, Vol.2(3-4), pp.187-196
2005
DOI: 10.1155/2005/285756
Abstract
The layout problem is of importance to ergonomists, vehicle/cockpit packaging engineers, designers of manufacturing assembly lines, designers concerned with the placement of levers, knobs, controls, etc. in the reachable workspace of a human, and also to users of digital human modeling code, where digital prototyping has become a valuable tool. This paper proposes a hybrid optimization method (gradient-based optimization and simulated annealing) to obtain the layout design. We implemented the proposed algorithm for a project at Oral-B Laboratories, where a manufacturing cell involves an operator who handles three objects, some with the left hand, others with the right hand.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Optimization-Based Layout Design
- Creators
- K Abdel-Malek - Virtual Soldier Research Program, Center for Computer-Aided Design, The University of Iowa, 111 Engineering Research Facility, Iowa City, IA 52242-1000, USAZ Mi - Virtual Soldier Research Program, Center for Computer-Aided Design, The University of Iowa, 111 Engineering Research Facility, Iowa City, IA 52242-1000, USAJ Yang - Virtual Soldier Research Program, Center for Computer-Aided Design, The University of Iowa, 111 Engineering Research Facility, Iowa City, IA 52242-1000, USAK Nebel - U.S. Army TACOM/RDECOM, AMSRD-TAR-NAC/157, 6501 East 11 Mile Rd., Warren, MI 48397-5000, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Applied bionics and biomechanics, Vol.2(3-4), pp.187-196
- DOI
- 10.1155/2005/285756
- ISSN
- 1176-2322
- eISSN
- 1754-2103
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2005
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984064212002771
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