Lego Factory: An Educational Cim Environment For Assembly
Derek Yip‐Hoi, Zbigniew J. Pasek · 2020
This paper describes a general concept for a computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) environment intended for the design and assembly of "products" built out of Lego blocks.These "products" are conceptualized and designed within a Lego CAD System from a small set of the most commonly used Lego building blocks.Process planning and trajectory planning software is used to determine the build sequence and robot program for assembling the model directly from the 3D CAD model.The robot program is fed into a cell controller to perform the physical build of the "product".This paper also describes student projects designed to explore the feasibility of the technical concepts necessary for such a system.These include a robot gripper, a block sorting mechanism, and an assembly planning system integrated with the Lego CAD system and the physical assembly cell.