Presidential Young Investigator Award: An Integrated Approach to Design for Manufacturing

该提案旨在支持基金会的研究， 总统青年研究员奖（PYI） 钱德拉博士的研究工作旨在开发一种知识- 基于系统，将合理地达到一个集成的设计， 实际的生产过程。 使理性 基于各种信息综合的决策 最终达到一个综合的设计， 在日常工程实践中的重要作用。 因此 拟议的项目旨在制定一个概念框架， 从因果关系的角度进行制造设计。 这个框架是 然后用于开发一个基于知识的系统， 从一些详细的分析中深入了解这一过程， 简化模型的实验，并将合理地达到一个 使用混合公理的实际过程的集成设计， 设计综合的算法方法。 根本 这些原则是相当普遍的，可以应用于任何制造业。 金属切削、金属成型、铸造、焊接等工艺。 这个关于制造设计的项目有三个主要组成部分： (1)从因果关系建立概念框架 一般原则和公理的视角和识别 制造设计，（2）识别功能和物理 通过因果分析的层次结构，以及（3）整合 制造设计的基础上的概念框架，根据 识别的层次结构。 保华计划的目标是为 全国最杰出、最有前途的青年科学家和 工程系。 该奖项旨在提高 美国学术机构应对需求的能力 为高素质的科学家和工程师提供学术和 工业研究和教学。 根据这两项 目标，钱德拉博士的总统青年研究者奖 建议。 这是一个连续五年的奖项。 年度资金将 按基数25 000美元计算，最多可追加37 500美元， 获得了产业配套支持。

This proposal is for support of research under the Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Awards program. Dr. Chandra's research efforts aim at developing a knowledge- based system that will rationally arrive at an integrated design of the actual manufacturing process. The ability to make rational decisions based on the synthesis of various pieces of information and to eventually arrive at an integrated design plays a very important role in everyday engineering practice. Accordingly, the proposed project aims at developing a conceptual framework for manufacturing design from a causal perspective. This framework is then used in developing a knowledge-based system that will gain insight into the process from a few detailed analyses and experiments on simplified models and will rationally arrive at an integrated design of the actual process using a hybrid axiomatic- algorithmic approach for design synthesis. The fundamental principles are quite general and may be applied to any manufacturing process such as metal cutting, metal forming, casting, welding, etc. This project on manufacturing design has three primary components: (1) establishment of a conceptual framework from a causal perspective and identification of general principles and axioms for manufacturing design, (2) identification of functional and physical hierarchies through a causal analysis, and (3) integration of manufacturing design based on the conceptual framework according to the identified hierarchies. The objectives of the PYI program are to provide support to the Nation's most outstanding and promising young science and engineering faculty. The awards are intended to improve the capability of U.S. academic institutions to respond to the demand for highly qualified scientists and engineers for academic and industrial research and teaching. In accordance with those objectives, a Presidential Young Investigator Award for Dr. Chandra is recommended. This is a five-year continuing award. Annual funding will be at the base level of $25,000 with a supplement of up to $37,500 to match industrial support obtained.