JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Overview

Course objective: The objective is to understand the terminologies related to forward engineering and reverse engineering and to identify the process of designing, manufacturing, assembling, and maintaining products and systems.

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

• Familiarize with the process of reverse engineering and its applications.
• Understand the methodologies and techniques for Reverse Engineering.
• Learn various data collection techniques and the data processing chain.
• Select a proper system to generate geometric representations of physical objects.
• Integrate Reverse Engineering and Rapid Prototyping.

UNIT - I

Introduction to Reverse Engineering: Reverse Engineering –The Generic Process Reverse Engineering in Automotive, Aerospace, Medical sectors: Legal Aspects of Reverse Engineering: Copyright Law, Reverse Engineering, Recent Case Law, Barriers to Adopting Reverse Engineering. A discussion on a few benchmark case studies

UNIT - II

Methodologies and Techniques for Reverse Engineering: The Potential for Automation with 3-D Laser Scanners, What Is Not Reverse Engineering, What is Computer-aided (Forward) Engineering, What Is Computer-aided Reverse Engineering, Computer Vision and Reverse Engineering, Structured- light Range Imaging, Scanner Pipeline

UNIT - III

Reverse Engineering–Hardware and Software: Contact Methods Noncontact Methods, Destructive Method. Reverse Engineering Software Classification, Fundamental Reverse Engineering Operations, Reverse Engineering Phases

UNIT - IV

Selecting a Reverse Engineering System: The Selection Process, Some Additional Complexities, Point Capture Devices, Triangulation Approaches, “Time-of-flight” or Ranging Systems, Structured-light and Stereoscopic Imaging Systems, issues with Light-based Approaches, Tracking Systems, Internal Measurement Systems, X-ray Tomography, Destructive Systems, Some Comments on Accuracy, Positioning the Probe, Post processing the Captured Data, Handling Data Points, Curve and Surface Creation, Inspection Applications, Manufacturing Approaches.

UNIT - V

Integration between Reverse Engineering and Rapid Prototyping: Modeling Cloud Data in Reverse Engineering, Data Processing for Rapid Prototyping, Integration of RE and RP for Layer-based Model Generation, Adaptive Slicing Approach for Cloud Data Modeling, Planar Polygon Curve Construction for a Layer, Determination of Adaptive Layer Thickness.

TEXT BOOK:

• 1. Reverse Engineering: An Industrial Perspective by Vinesh Raja and Kiran J. Fernandes, Springer-Verlag London Limited 2008

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. K. Otto and K. Wood, Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development, Prentice Hall, 2001.
• 2. Anupam Saxena, Birendra Sahay, Computer Aided Engineering Design, Springer, 2005.
• 3. Ali K. Kamrani and Emad Abouel Nasr, Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping, Springer, 2010. M. TECH. II Year I Sem. (ENGG. DESIGN)