公开(公告)号：US12030185B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US16667843

申请日：2019-10-29

Applicant: AUTODESK, INC.

Inventor： Heather Kerrick ,  Erin Bradner ,  Hui Li ,  Evan Patrick Atherton ,  Nicholas Cote

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G05B19/4097

CPC classification number: B25J9/1658 ,  B25J9/1664 ,  G05B19/4097 ,  G05B2219/35134 ,  G05B2219/45064

Abstract: An assembly engine is configured to generate, based on a computer-aided design (CAD) assembly, a set of motion commands that causes the robot to manufacture a physical assembly corresponding to the CAD assembly. The assembly engine analyzes the CAD assembly to determine an assembly sequence for various physical components to be included in the physical assembly. The assembly sequence indicates the order in which each physical component should be incorporated into the physical assembly and how those physical components should be physically coupled together. The assembly engine further analyzes the CAD assembly to determine different component paths that each physical component should follow when being incorporated into the physical assembly. Based on the assembly sequence and the component paths, the assembly engine generates a set of motion commands that the robot executes to assemble the physical components into the physical assembly.

公开(公告)号：US20210073445A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-11

申请号：US17103606

申请日：2020-11-24

Applicant: AUTODESK, INC.

Inventor： Evan Patrick Atherton ,  David Thomasson ,  Maurice Ugo Conti ,  Heather Kerrick ,  Nicholas Cote

IPC: G06F30/23 ,  B25J9/16

Abstract: A robotic assembly cell is configured to generate a physical mesh of physical polygons based on a simulated mesh of simulated triangles. A control application configured to operate the assembly cell selects a simulated polygon in the simulated mesh and then causes a positioning robot in the cell to obtain a physical polygon that is similar to the simulated polygon. The positioning robot positions the polygon on the physical mesh, and a welding robot in the cell then welds the polygon to the mesh. The control application captures data that reflects how the physical polygon is actually positioned on the physical mesh, and then updates the simulated mesh to be geometrically consistent with the physical mesh. In doing so, the control application may execute a multi-objective solver to generate an updated simulated mesh that meets specific design criteria.

公开(公告)号：US10768606B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-08

申请号：US15613070

申请日：2017-06-02

Applicant: AUTODESK, INC.

Inventor： Evan Patrick Atherton ,  David Thomasson ,  Maurice Ugo Conti ,  Heather Kerrick ,  Nicholas Cote ,  Hui Li

IPC: B22D23/00 ,  B23K9/04 ,  G05B19/4099 ,  B33Y50/00

Abstract: An agent engine allocates a collection of agents to scan the surface of an object model. Each agent operates autonomously and implements particular behaviors based on the actions of nearby agents. Accordingly, the collection of agents exhibits swarm-like behavior. Over a sequence of time steps, the agents traverse the surface of the object model. Each agent acts to avoid other agents, thereby maintaining a relatively consistent distribution of agents across the surface of the object model over all time steps. At a given time step, the agent engine generates a slice through the object model that intersects each agent in a group of agents. The slice associated with a given time step represents a set of locations where material should be deposited to fabricate a 3D object. Based on a set of such slices, a robot engine causes a robot to fabricate the 3D object.