Abstract:Determining a feasible bending sequence, i.e., ensuring absence of wire self-collisions and wire-machine collisions, or even an optimal bending sequence, i.e., minimising time or energy required to perform it, can be a difficult and time consuming task for complex workpieces, even for an expert operator. The introduction of algorithms for the computation of wire bending sequences is thus crucial to increase productivity and production flexibility, and to decrease production costs. To this aim, this work propos… Show more
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