Generative Design for Step Change in Sustainable Urban Mobility

可持续城市交通逐步变革的生成设计

• 批准号: 10081257
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: BETTER BICYCLES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10081257
• 关键词: Generative; Design; Step; Change; Sustainable

We believe the future of city transport is clean, healthy, and always with you. We're creating an e-bike that's as easy indoors as a roller case, with room for whatever you need to carry, and it flicks open instantly, ready to ride with a reassuring 'clunk'. It stores flat against a wall, and you can take it with you anywhere, never worrying about storage or theft.We're using artificial intelligence (AI) to create this vision. AI allows us to optimize mechanisms, making the bike more compact and easier to fold. AI also allows us to create highly efficient lightweight structures. We are developing our own novel algorithms for mechanism design while working with state-of-the-art generative design algorithms under the guidance of the world's leading aerospace experts.Compared to existing folding bikes, we're already half the size, 20x faster to fold, and far easier to roll along when folded. AI will allow us to improve on this while also drastically reducing weight.BriefBike will fight climate change and respiratory disease; help people get active; and make our cities socially connected places where we move past each other at a human level. Electric cars alone can't solve these problems. We need to find more efficient and healthy ways to move around our cities. We believe that BriefBike is the answer -- an e-bike you can conveniently keep with you, ready to ride whenever you feel like it.BriefBike makes it more practical and appealing to travel by bike. Working with experts in design and manufacturing, we're creating a series of demonstrator bikes that we can test with real users. Thousands of people have already signed up for these tests.Despite the cost of living crisis, or perhaps because of it, people continue to buy ever-more bikes for transport. Currently, the UK produces less than 0.5% of the 20 million bikes sold in Europe annually, and it's not that they're all made in Asia, 76% are produced in the EU. We're working with automotive and aerospace component manufacturers in the UK to produce our bikes using modern, automated and scalable methods. The time is right for the UK to lead the most rapidly growing transport sector -- e-bike production.

我们相信，城市交通的未来是清洁、健康的，永远与您同在。我们正在创造一种电动自行车，它就像一个滚筒箱一样容易在室内使用，有足够的空间来放置你需要携带的任何东西，它会立即打开，准备好用一个令人放心的“叮当声”骑。它可以靠墙平放存放，您可以随身携带，无需担心存储或被盗。我们正在使用人工智能（AI）来实现这一愿景。人工智能使我们能够优化机制，使自行车更紧凑，更容易折叠。AI还允许我们创建高效的轻质结构。我们在世界领先的航空航天专家的指导下，使用最先进的生成式设计算法，开发自己的新型机制设计算法。与现有折叠自行车相比，我们的折叠自行车尺寸减少了一半，折叠速度提高了20倍，折叠时更容易沿着滚动。人工智能将使我们能够改善这一点，同时也大幅减轻体重。BriefBike将应对气候变化和呼吸系统疾病;帮助人们变得活跃;并使我们的城市成为社会联系的地方，我们在人类的水平上相互移动。单靠电动汽车无法解决这些问题。我们需要找到更有效和健康的方式在我们的城市中移动。我们相信BriefBike就是答案--一辆你可以方便地随身携带的电动自行车，随时准备骑。BriefBike使骑自行车旅行更加实用和吸引人。我们与设计和制造方面的专家合作，创造了一系列的示范自行车，我们可以与真实的用户进行测试。成千上万的人已经报名参加了这些测试。尽管生活成本危机，或者也许正因为如此，人们继续购买越来越多的自行车作为交通工具。目前，英国生产的自行车不到欧洲每年销售的2000万辆的0.5%，这并不是说它们都是在亚洲生产的，76%是在欧盟生产的。我们正在与英国的汽车和航空航天零部件制造商合作，使用现代化、自动化和可扩展的方法生产自行车。现在是英国引领增长最快的交通行业--电动自行车生产的时候了。