Application Possibilities Of Artificial Intelligence Methods In Design For Assembly

Abstract

The recent research activity in design for assembly (DFA) has been directed towards the development of architectures and ontologies to apply artificial intelligence, in order to assist the design activity and to apply automation to the more complex, conceptual and decision-making tasks. The present paper surveys the application of artificial inteligence (AI) techniques in engineering design. Within this context, fuzzy logic (FL), genetic algorithms (GA) and artificial neural networks (ANN), as well as their fusion are reviewed in order to examine the capability of this methods and techniques to efectively address various assembly design tasks and issues. Representative approaches with high relation to the assembly planning are presented.