Irregular packing problems: A review of mathematical models

AAS Leao, FMB Toledo, JF Oliveira… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Irregular packing problems (also known as nesting problems) belong to the more general
class of cutting and packing problems and consist of allocating a set of irregular and regular …

Level-set-based partitioning and packing optimization of a printable model

M Yao, Z Chen, L Luo, R Wang, H Wang - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
As the 3D printing technology starts to revolutionize our daily life and the manufacturing
industries, a critical problem is about to e-merge: how can we find an automatic way to …

An intelligent assistant for navigation of visually impaired people

NG Bourbakis, D Kavraki - Proceedings 2nd annual IEEE …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the navigation methodology employed by an intelligent assistant
(agent) for people with disabilities. In particular, the intelligent assistant, called Tyflos, would …

Greedy adaptive search: A new approach for large-scale irregular packing problems in the fabric industry

X Hu, J Li, J Cui - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The 2-dimensional irregular packing problems are important in the fabric industry. Under
several restrictions, fabric packing problems require placing a given set of parts within a …

Interactive optimization strategies for layout problems

J Bénabès, F Bennis, E Poirson, Y Ravaut - International Journal on …, 2010 - Springer
Component and facility layout plays an important role in the design and usability of many
engineering products and systems as mechanical design, process plan, management and …

2d multi-objective placement algorithm for free-form components

G Jacquenot, F Bennis… - … and Information in …, 2009 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This article presents a generic method to solve 2D multiobjective placement problem for free-
form components. The proposed method is a relaxed placement technique combined with …

Constraint aggregation in non-linear programming models for nesting problems

P Rocha, AM Gomes, R Rodrigues, FMB Toledo… - … science: State of the art …, 2016 - Springer
The Nesting problem is a complex problem that arises in industries where sets of pieces or
space must be efficiently placed or allocated in order to minimize wasted space or wasted …

Two-phase approach to the nesting problem with continuous rotations

P Rocha, R Rodrigues, AM Gomes, FMB Toledo… - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an approach that assists in producing highly compacted Nesting layouts
with irregular pieces using free rotations. This approach consists in the selection and …

An interactive-based approach to the layout design optimization

J Bénabès, F Bennis, E Poirson, Y Ravaut - Global Product Development …, 2011 - Springer
Layout design plays an important role in the design and usability of many engineering
products and systems. Because of the great complexity of most industrial layout problems …

Removing node overlaps using multi-sphere scheme

T Imamichi, Y Arahori, J Gim, SH Hong… - … Symposium on Graph …, 2008 - Springer
In this paper, we consider the problem of removing overlaps of labels in a given layout by
changing locations of some of the overlapping labels, and present a new method for the …