Automating the conceptual design process: “From black box to component selection”
Automating the conceptual design process: “From black box to component selection”
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DOI：
10.1017/s0890060409990163
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2010-01
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T. Kurtoglu;A. Swantner;M. Campbell
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作者：
T. Kurtoglu;A. Swantner;M. Campbell
摘要概念设计是设计过程中的重要组成部分，在这个过程中，设计者首先设想新的想法，然后将它们综合成符合特定设计规范的物理配置。在这项研究中，开发了一套计算工具，帮助设计者执行导航设计空间以创建概念设计解决方案的这一重要任务。该方法的基础是通过组合各种计算方法来自动化基于函数的综合范例。因此，开发并集成了三种嵌套搜索算法，以捕获概念设计不同阶段的不同设计决策。所实现的系统提供了一种自动生成针对实际设计问题的新的替代解决方案的方法。该方法在机电设备设计中的应用展示了该方法的能力范围，以及它如何与人类概念设计生成进行比较，并作为补充设计师技能的工具套件。
Abstract Conceptual design is a vital part of the design process during which designers first envision new ideas and then synthesize them into physical configurations that meet certain design specifications. In this research, a suite of computational tools is developed that assists the designers in performing this nontrivial task of navigating the design space for creating conceptual design solutions. The methodology is based on automating the function-based synthesis paradigm by combining various computational methods. Accordingly, three nested search algorithms are developed and integrated to capture different design decisions at various stages of conceptual design. The implemented system provides a method for automatically generating novel alternative solutions to real design problems. The application of the approach to the design of an electromechanical device shows the method's range of capabilities and how it serves as a comparison to human conceptual design generation and as a tool suite to complement the skills of a designer.