Technical note: A knowledge-based framework for creative conceptual design of multi-disciplinary systems

  • Authors:
  • Yong Chen;Ze-Lin Liu;You-Bai Xie

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

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.