Journal
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 146-153Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2011.02.016
Keywords
Functional representation; Conceptual design; Creative design; Multi-disciplinary systems
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2008AA04Z108]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [50975173, 50935004]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [09QA1402800]
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Designers often have difficulty in fulfilling creative conceptual designs of multi-disciplinary systems due to the lack of sufficient multi-disciplinary knowledge. Therefore, this paper proposes a knowledge-based framework for the creative conceptual design of multi-disciplinary systems through reusing and synthesizing known principle solutions in various disciplines together. It comprises a formal constraints-based approach for representing the desired functions, a domain-independent approach for modeling functional knowledge of known principle solutions, and a heterogeneous-object-state-search-based approach for synthesizing known principle solutions together for achieving the desired functions. A design case illustrates that the proposed framework can successfully achieve creative conceptual design of multi-disciplinary systems. A prototype system, called the Intelligent Creative Conceptual Design Platform, is implemented based on this framework. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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