An intelligent environment for simulating mechanical assembly operations

Rapid technical advances in many different areas of scientificcomputing provide the enabling technologies for creating a com-
prehensive simulation and visualization environment for assembly
design and planning. We have built an intelligent environment in
which simple simulations can be composed together to create com-
plex simulations for detecting potential assembly problems. Our
goal in this project is to develop high fidelity assembly simulation
and visualization tools that can detect assembly related problems
without going through physical mock-ups. In addition, these tools
can be used to create easy-to-visualize instructions for performing
assembly and service operations.