Virtual Manufacturing Background Project

Survey Response

• Name(s): Placid Ferreira
• Contact Information:

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  * Placid M. Ferreira                                 *
  * Assoc. Prof. of Mech. and Ind. Engg.               *
  * Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering     *
  * 1206, W Green Street                               *
  * MC-244, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *
  * Illinois, 61801, USA                               *
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  * E-mail: placid@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu                    *
  * Phone: (217) 333-0639                              *
  * FAX: (217) 244-9956                                *
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• Information related to Virtual Manufacturing

  My lab works in large-scale flexible automation, concentrating on
  configuration flexibility of automated manufacturing systems, configurable
  planning tools to support large scale flexibly automated manufacturing
  systems
  and development of devices (processes, tools, gages) for working in such
  flexible environments. I guess my homepage would give you most of the
  information you
  are requesting.
             URL:      http://marshall.me.uiuc.edu/lsfa.html
  
  I believe most relevant pieces of our work are
  
         1. A configurable distributed discrete-event simulator/controller of
  FMSs
         2. Structural Control Policies for FMSs
         3. A repertoire of geometric algorithms for reasoning in
  manufacturing
            planning
         4. A configurable feature extraction system
         5. A die-face design workbench for sheet metal working
         6. Dynamic Geometric Reasoning: Scene Feasibility and Geometric
  Constraint
            Satisfaction Problems.
         7. An environment for design of assemblies.
  

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