To plan for CNC fabrication, a large amount of domain specific knowledge is required to map the desired geometry of a part to a manufacturing process. The newly developed method encodes knowledge of fundamental machine capabilities through the use of spatial grammars and applies it using heuristic search methods. A software implementation of the core method is presented and validated using several test cases. Overall, the approach and method presented is an enabler for the creation of autonomous fabrication systems and CNC machine tools that are able carry out on-line planning for CNC fabrication.
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To plan for CNC fabrication, a large amount of domain specific knowledge is required to map the desired geometry of a part to a manufacturing process. The newly developed method encodes knowledge of fundamental machine capabilities through the use of spatial grammars and applies it using heuristic search methods. A software implementation of the core method is presented and validated using several test cases. Overall, the approach and method presented is an enabler for the creation of autonomous...
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