title: Manufacturing feature recognition toward integration with process planning.
abstract: Process planning plays a key role by linking CAD and CAM. Its front-end is feature recognition, but feature recognition research has not been in accord with the requirements of process planning. This paper presents an effort for integrating the two activities: feature-based machining sequence generation primarily based on tool capabilities. The system recognizes only manufacturable features by consulting the tool database, and simultaneously constructs dependencies among the features. Then, the A* algorithm is used to search for an optimal machining sequence by the aid of the feature dependencies and a manufacturing cost function.
authors.affiliation: Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Sung Kyun Kwan Univ., Suwon.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yi