Re-Imagining Engineering Design: Growing Radical Cyber-Physical-Socio Phenotypes

重新想象工程设计：不断增长的激进的网络-物理-社会表型

• 批准号: EP/V007335/1
• 负责人: Mark Price
• 金额: $ 937.29万
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV007335%2F1
• 关键词: Re; Imagining; Engineering; Design; Growing

The fundamental goal of this proposal is to Re-Imagine Design Engineering so that new ideas and concepts are generated rapidly, and where both the product and its associated manufacturing system (including its supply chain and people) are designed concurrently and fully tailored to each other. By doing this the >70% of lifecycle and supply chain costs that are "locked in" at the concept design stage can be understood, minimised and verified.This programme will target the transformation of Design Engineering via Interoperable Cyber-Physical-Social (CPS) Services in which: (i) engineering competences and multiscale physics are integrated by innovative digital capabilities, (ii) advanced analytics support capture of knowledge, enhance resilience and predict compliance by interoperable 'smart testing' and fully simulated lifecycle analyses to validate model-centric designs, (iii) novel business/supply chain models provide a transparent value stream from digital design through to manufacturing and pathways to ensure the UK develops the next generation of digital engineering talent. Our vision of the future where manufacturing systems are self-organising, self-aware and distributed, brings a radically different manufacturing industry than exists today.This leads naturally to identifying four major research challenges to this programme:1. Interoperability - CPS Design Theory: How can we generate ideas and concepts rapidly such that artefacts are designed concurrently with manufacturing systems to create resilient extended enterprises with open communication throughout the whole system?2. The Cyber World - CPS Modelling Design & Manufacture: How can we represent concepts virtually such that key design characteristics driving intended behaviour are understood, coded and realised via robust, intelligently manufactured product variants?3. The Physical World - CPS Concept to Reality: What verification and validation concepts are needed to find the shortest and most beneficial pathway to physical realisation aided by a cyber-physical-socio manufacturing ecosystem?4. The Socio World - CPS The Extended Manufacturing Enterprise: How can we translate and exploit concepts in new organisational structures within a cyber-physical-socio ecosystem to accelerate evolution of design solutions across extended enterprises?The four technical challenges are integrated and pose interdependent challenges. They form the four threads which are to be woven together in this programme. A range of approaches for modelling, evaluation and prediction are needed for the whole programme, and dealing with such diverse system entities from simulation models to individual human and business organisations necessitates a diversity of technical approaches.The concept of 'cyber-genes' and 'cyber-seeds' that can be used in an evolutionary approach form the core thread to provide a new CPS design theory but requires significant interlinkage with the other aspects. For example, CAD models in the cyber world are sufficient for some products, but in general systems are multi-functional and multi-disciplinary and will require a range of modelling methods to provide the necessary design evaluation data, such as with whole life costing. Similarly, although possible to communicate with manufacturing (e.g. CNC machines), feedback of intelligent data directly into a live design is not yet done, and new methods are needed in both design systems and the organisation to allow this capability. Overlaying evolutionary algorithms to these will necessarily require all elements to be adapted and changed, as both the system and underlying methods evolve. Therefore, these nature analogous processes and a range of alternative approaches (e.g. fractals, agent-based systems, response surface methodologies etc.) will be explored.

该提案的基本目标是重新想象设计工程，以便迅速产生新的想法和概念，并同时设计产品及其相关制造系统(包括其供应链和人员)，并完全针对彼此量身定做。通过这样做，&gt；在概念设计阶段，70%的生命周期和供应链成本可以被理解、最小化和验证。该计划将通过可互操作的网络-物理-社会(CPS)服务来实现设计工程的转型，其中：(I)工程能力和多尺度物理通过创新的数字能力相结合，(Ii)高级分析支持获取知识，通过可互操作的智能测试和完全模拟的生命周期分析来验证以模型为中心的设计，从而提高弹性和预测合规性。(Iii)新颖的商业/供应链模式提供了从数字设计到制造的透明价值流和途径，以确保英国培养下一代数字工程人才。我们对未来制造系统是自组织、自感知和分布式的愿景，带来了一个与今天截然不同的制造业。这自然导致了这个项目面临的四个主要研究挑战：1.互操作性-CPS设计理论：我们如何快速产生想法和概念，使人工制品与制造系统同时设计，以创建具有弹性的扩展企业，整个系统具有开放的沟通？2.网络世界-CPS建模设计与制造：我们如何虚拟地表示概念，以便通过健壮、智能制造的产品变体？3.物理世界-CPS概念到现实：需要什么验证和确认概念来找到借助网络-物理-社会制造生态系统帮助实现物理实现的最短和最有益的途径？4.社会世界-CPS扩展制造企业：我们如何在网络-物理-社会生态系统中转换和利用新组织结构中的概念，以加速跨扩展企业的设计解决方案的演变？这四个技术挑战是综合的，相互依存的挑战。它们构成了四条线，在这个节目中将被编织在一起。整个方案需要一系列用于建模、评估和预测的方法，而处理从模拟模型到个人和商业组织的各种不同的系统实体需要各种技术方法。可以在进化方法中使用的“网络基因”和“网络种子”的概念形成了提供新的CPS设计理论的核心线索，但需要与其他方面显著地相互联系。例如，网络世界中的CAD模型对某些产品来说是足够的，但一般来说，系统是多功能和多学科的，需要一系列建模方法来提供必要的设计评估数据，例如使用全寿命成本计算。同样，尽管可以与制造业(如数控机床)沟通，但将智能数据直接反馈到现场设计中还没有完成，设计系统和组织都需要新的方法来实现这一功能。随着系统和基础方法的发展，将进化算法叠加到这些算法上必然需要对所有元素进行调整和更改。因此，这些性质类似的过程和一系列替代方法(例如，分形法、基于代理的系统、响应面方法等)。将会被探索。

项目成果

Using Ultrasonic Haptics Within an Immersive Spider Exposure Environment to Provide a Multi-Sensorial Experience

在沉浸式蜘蛛暴露环境中使用超声波触觉提供多感官体验

• DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2021.707731
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Frontiers in Virtual Reality
• 作者: Brice D

Hierarchical CADNet: Learning from B-Reps for Machining Feature Recognition

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2022.103226
• 发表时间: 2022-02-19
• 期刊: COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
• 影响因子: 4.3
• 作者: Colligan, Andrew R.;Robinson, Trevor T.;Cao, Weijuan
• 通讯作者: Cao, Weijuan

A Novel Design System for Exploiting Additive Manufacturing

用于利用增材制造的新颖设计系统

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Friel I

Generative design for additive manufacturing using a biological development analogy

使用生物发育类比进行增材制造的生成设计

• DOI: 10.1093/jcde/qwac016
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
• 影响因子: 4.9
• 作者: Price M

The Development of a Storage Tank Automated Design and Analysis Framework (STADA)

储罐自动化设计与分析框架（STADA）的开发

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: McConnell R