Presidential Young Investigator Award: Knowledge-based Engineering Systems Research Laboratory

总统青年研究员奖：基于知识的工程系统研究实验室

• 批准号: 8657116
• 负责人: Stephen C-Y. Lu
• 金额: $ 31.2万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-08-01 至 1993-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8657116&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Presidential; Young; Investigator; Award; Knowledge

The proposed research by this newly-funded Presidential Young Investigator will explore the automation of decision-making for engineering design and manufacturing tasks, at a level above that of the conventional computer-based automation of Numerically Controlled (NC) machines and robots. The main goal is to achieve a computer environment in which engineers can acquire, represent, and utilize domain knowledge in their decision-making processes. This will involve research in integrating different types of problem-solving methods, modeling approaches, and domain knowledge. The resulting computer-aided engineering environment will encompass deterministic, observational, and heuristic knowledge, and should support engineers in both the analysis and synthesis aspects of decision-making. The research activities will be conducted in close cooperation with industry sponsors, and will include creation of an intelligent decision-making framework, development of a cooperative decision-making paradigm, and investigation of fundamental links between decisions and actions. Funding will be shared with the Computational Engineering Program, which is interested in the aspect of the research addressing parallel computations.

这位新资助的总统青年研究员提出的研究将探索工程设计和制造任务决策的自动化，其水平高于传统的基于计算机的数控（NC）机器和机器人自动化。主要目标是实现一个计算机环境，在这个环境中，工程师可以在他们的决策过程中获取、表示和利用领域知识。这将涉及整合不同类型的问题解决方法、建模方法和领域知识的研究。由此产生的计算机辅助工程环境将包含确定性、观察性和启发式知识，并应支持工程师在决策的分析和综合方面。研究活动将与工业赞助者密切合作进行，包括建立一个明智的决策框架，发展一个合作决策范例，以及调查决策与行动之间的基本联系。资金将与计算工程项目共享，该项目对并行计算方面的研究感兴趣。