Research Initiation: Knowledge Representation for the Design and Analysis of Mechanical Assemblies

该项目研究机械设计过程，目的是开发一个设计环境，在这个环境中，功能和结构知识可以用来创建和编辑详细的几何形状。这包括对典型设计问题的研究，以确定设计的自然操作，使用人工智能和几何建模领域的数据表示方法，作为开发从功能描述生成设计的交互方法的基础。

This project studies the mechanical design process with the aim of developing a design environment where functional and structural knowledge can be used to create and edit detailed geometry. This involves the study of typical design problems to identify natural operations on designs, the use of data representation methods from the fields of artificial intelligence and geometric modelling as a basis for the development of interactive methods for the generation of designs from functional descriptions.