Research on Information Extraction in Pipe-Routing Layout Space for Complex Products
The extraction of information in the layout space is a basis and key to realize automatic pipe-routing layout for complex products such as aero-engines. This paper proposes the filling-surrounding spatial information extraction method. The layout space was first divided into several regions according to the location of accessories, which resulted in the parallel extraction of information in the layout space. Then by means of the filling idea, accessories in each region were filled one by one. After accessories’ rough containing boxes were determined, each accessory and free space was represented with discrete points by using grids to divide the rough containing box. Finally, the outside-in surrounding scanning was used for the rough containing box to identify the state of spatial points. In addition, the flow of information extraction and the storage mode of the extracted information were given. The case study illustrates its feasibility and effectiveness.