I-Corps: Information Services for Biologically Inspired Design

I-Corps：生物启发设计的信息服务

• 批准号: 1263633
• 负责人: Ashok Goel
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263633&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Information; Services; Biologically; Inspired

Taking inspiration from nature to solve design problems has the potential to lead to major advances in almost every conceivable sphere of design and innovation. Thus, there is a growing global movement of designers interested in the practice of biologically inspired design (BID). However, the adoption and growth of the movement is limited by the fact that most designers are novices in biology. This causes two major issues: (i) slow, tedious search for biological analogues relevant to design problems, and (ii) slow, inaccurate and imprecise understanding of biological systems. Thus, there is a need for (a) information systems that provide access to biological knowledge from a design perspective, and (b) interactive tools that support the process of making biological analogies in conceptual design. Over the last several years, researchers have developed a suite of tools centered around an approach to semantically representing, indexing, retrieving, assessing, and delivering biological information relevant to design problems. This approach can form the basis for providing a range of information services to BID professionals and contribute to the growth of the movement. BID not only offers innovative solutions, but it can also help drive trends in sustainable design. Since nature does not take the "heat, beat, and treat" approach often taken by human produced technologies, innovation that mimics biological systems fosters sustainable design. Thus, in the long term, researchers believe that this project can help lead to measurable progress in sustainable design. The practice of BID is becoming widespread, encompassing emerging disciplines like biotechnology, robotics, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, etc. Thus, researchers expect that these information services can potentially accelerate the growth of emerging technologies in all these disciplines.

从大自然中汲取灵感来解决设计问题，有可能导致几乎每个可能的设计和创新领域的重大进展。因此，对生物学启发设计实践（BID）实践感兴趣的设计师的全球运动日益增长。但是，该运动的采用和成长受到大多数设计师是生物学的新手的限制。这导致了两个主要问题：（i）缓慢，乏味的寻找与设计问题相关的生物类似物，以及（ii）对生物系统的缓慢，不准确和不精确的理解。因此，需要（a）从设计角度提供对生物学知识的访问的信息系统，以及（b）支持在概念设计中进行生物类似过程的交互式工具。在过去的几年中，研究人员开发了一套工具，该工具围绕着一种语义代表，索引，检索，评估和传递与设计问题相关的生物学信息的方法。这种方法可以为向投标专业人员提供一系列信息服务的基础，并为运动的发展做出贡献。出价不仅提供创新的解决方案，而且还可以帮助推动可持续设计的趋势。由于自然没有采用人类生产技术经常采用的“热量，击败和治疗”方法，因此模仿生物系统促进了可持续设计的创新。因此，从长远来看，研究人员认为该项目可以帮助导致可持续设计方面的可衡量进展。竞标的实践正在广泛，包括生物技术，机器人技术，纳米技术，合成生物学等新兴学科。因此，研究人员期望这些信息服务可以潜在地加速所有这些学科中新兴技术的增长。