Maintenance path planning for aircraft virtual maintenance

Zhenbao Liu, Caili Xie, Meng Yan, Shuhui Bu, Chao Zhang

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Abstract

We present a path planning algorithm for virtual maintenance of aircraft components. Component disassembly is a troublesome challenge of aircraft maintenance due to contact collision happened inevitably in disassembly process, which makes maintenance work difficult and inefficient. We study component disassembly in virtual environment: first a hierarchical and associative relation model is constructed through component analysis. Relation model contains connection information for components in any level. We adopt matrix representation for relation model that makes it convenient for computation. Finally, dijkstras algorithm is used to find the optimum disassembly path. The test on full-size model of Osprey airplane motor propeller shows our algorithm is effective and efficient.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages587-597
Number of pages11
EditionVOL. 1
ISBN (Print)9783642542350
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2013 1st Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management - Xi'an, China
Duration: 25 Nov 201328 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
NumberVOL. 1
Volume296 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference2013 1st Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period25/11/1328/11/13

Keywords

  • Dijkstras algorithm
  • Hierarchical associative relation model
  • Path planning
  • Virtual disassembly

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