Title (150 characters) Rapid digitisation of early-stage prototypes and physical to digital synchronisation in product design. (PhD advertised by B.

摘要：该项目将研究捕获物理原型的形式和行为并生成同步数字表示的过程和技术。该项目预计包括但不限于：捕捉物理、运动学和动态原型的技术和过程，数字化形式和行为，以及检测宏观和微观尺度的变化。物理原型的数字模型和表示方法，包括数据结构、数据兼容性和版本控制。研究如何最好地使用原型数字化来加速原型制作过程，更好地支持设计，降低成本和减少浪费。背景：设计中数字和物理领域之间的鸿沟正在缩小，将数字世界的力量与有形的物理世界相结合，创造了先进且功能强大的产品。许多激进的尖端技术已经出现；包括正在进行的VR和AR革命，人工智能和数据驱动的物理系统（即自动驾驶汽车），以及虚拟助理和分析进一步侵入物理世界。无缝的数字/物理集成通常无法过渡到创造这种革命性产品的过程中，特别是在原型设计过程中，使得设计本身没有尖端产品所享有的经过验证的好处。原型设计通常是一个手工的、熟练的过程，在不同保真度的数字模型和物理模型之间进行频繁的来回迭代，每个模型都随着产品的开发而进行测试和更新。这个过程耗费时间和金钱，并且否定了数字/物理集成可以创造的许多紧急好处。

Summary: This project will investigate processes and technologies to capture the form and behaviour of physical prototypes and generate synchronised digital representations. The project is anticipated to include, but is not limited to: Technologies and processes to capture physical, kinematic, and dynamic prototypes, digitise form and behaviour, and detect macro- and micro-scale changes. Digital models and representation methods for physical prototypes, including data structures, data compatibility, and version control. Investigation of how prototype digitisation may best be used to accelerate prototyping processes, better support design, reduce cost, and reduce waste. Context: The divide between the digital and physical domains in design are shrinking, where integrating the power of the digital world with the tangibility of the physical has created advanced and highly capable products. Many radical, cutting-edge technologies have emerged; including the ongoing VR and AR revolution, A.I. and data-driven physical systems (i.e. self-driving cars), and virtual assistants and analytics encroaching further into the physical world. Seamless digital / physical integration often fails to transition into the processes that create such revolutionary products, particularly during prototyping, leaving design itself without the proven benefits that cutting-edge products have enjoyed. Prototyping is often a manual, skilled process, with frequent iterations between back and forward between digital and physical models of different fidelities, each tested and updated as the product develops. This process costs time and money and negates many of the emergent benefits that digital/physical integration can create.