Integrating computational synthesis and decision-based conceptual design

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 361-371

  Dong, Hui ^a   Wood, William H ^a  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COSTS; CRANKSHAFTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; TOOLS;

COMPUTATIONAL SYNTHESIS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DESIGN PERFORMANCE; SELECTION PROCESSES; DECISION BASED DESIGN; DECISION-BASED; DESIGN EVALUATION; DESIGN OPTION; DESIGN-PROCESS; EVALUATION MODELS; FIXED SETS; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; UNCERTAIN EVALUATION;

PRODUCT DESIGN; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

EID: 14044279977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2004-57481     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (43)

1. Finger, S. and Rinderle, J. R., 1989, "A Transformational Approach to Mechanical Design Using a Bond Graph Grammer," presented at Proc. of the First ASME DTM conference, Montreal.
2. Hoover, S. P. and Rinderle, J. R., 1994, "Abstractions, Design Views and Focusing," presented at American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Design Engineering Division (Publication) DE - DTM'94.
3. Sharpe, J. E. E. and Bracewell, R. H., 1993, "Application of Bond Graph Methodology to Concurrent Conceptual Design of Interdisciplinary Systems,".
4. Ulrich, K. T. and Seering, W. P., 1988, "Function sharing in Mechanical Design," presented at Proc. of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, St. Paul, Minnesota.
5. Kota, S. and Erdman, A. G., 1997, "Motion Control in Product Design," Mechanical Engineering, pp. 74-76.
6. Kota, S. and Chiou, S.-J., 1992, "Conceptual Design of Mechanisms Based on Computational Synthesis and Simulation of Kinematic Building Blocks," Research in Engineering Design, vol. 4, pp. 75-87.
7. Chiou, S.-J. and Kota, S., 1999, "Automated Conceptual Design of Mechanisms," Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 34, pp. 467-495.
8. Chakrabarti, A. and Bligh, T. P., 2001, "A Scheme for Functional Reasoning in Conceptual Design," Design Studies, vol. 22, pp. 493-517.
9. Chakrabarti, A. and P.Bligh, T., 1994, "An Approach to Functional Synthesis of Solutions in Mechanical Conceptual Design. Part I: Introduction and Knowledge Representation," Research in Engineering Design, vol. 6, pp. 127-141.
10. Chakrabarti, A. and Bligh, T. P., 1996, "Approach to Functional Synthesis of Solutions in Mechanical Conceptual Design. Part II: Kind Synthesis," Research in Engineering Design, vol. 8, pp. 52-62.
11. Brown, K. N., McMahon, C. A.and et al., 1995, "Features, aka the Semantics of a Formal Language of Manufacturing," Research in Engineering Design, vol. 7, pp. 151-172.
12. Purvis, L. and Pu, P., 1998, "COMPOSER: A Case Based Reasoning System for Engineering Design," Robotica, vol. 16, pp. 285-295.
13. Navinchandra, D., 1988, "Behavioral Synthesis in CADET, a Case-Based Design Tool," presented at Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Case-based Reasoning.
14. Sycara, K., Navinchandra, D.and et al., 1991, "CADET: A Case-Based Synthesis Tool for Engineering Design," International Journal of Expert Systems, vol. 4, pp. 157-188.
15. Stiny, G., 1980, "Introduction to Shape and Shape Grammars," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol. 7, pp. 343-351.
16. Hauser, J. R. and Clausing, D., 1988,"The House of Quality," Harvard Business Review, vol. May-June, pp. 63-73.
17. Pahl, G. and Beitz, W., 1988, Engineering Design- A Systematic Approach, Springer-Verlag.
18. Kota, S., 2003, "Computational Synthesis of Mechanical Systems," presented at Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks to High Level Functionality, Stanford, CA.
19. Campbell, M. I. and Rai, R., 2003,"A Generalization of Computational Synthesis Methods in Engineering Design," presented at Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks to High Level Functionality, Stanford, CA.
20. Wood, W. H. and Dym, C. L., 2003, "Integrated Computational Synthesis: a Design Perspective," presented at Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks to High Level Functionality, Stanford, CA.
21. McGinnis, B. D. and Ullman, D. G., 1992, "The Evolution of Commitments in the Design of a Component," Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 114, pp. 1-7.
22. Wood, W. H. and Agogino, A., 1997, "A Prescription for Information Prospecting, Data Mining, and Design Refinement.," presented at Proceedings of DETC'97, Sacramento, CA.
23. Wood, W. H., 2000, "Quantifying Design Freedom in Decision-Based Conceptual Design," presented at Proceedings of DETC 2000, Baltimorem MD.
24. Wood, W. H., 2001, "A View of Design Theory and Methodology from the Standpoint of Design Freedom," presented at Proceedings of DETC 2001, Pittsburgh, PA.
25. Wood, W. H. and Agogino, A. M., 2004, "Decision-Based Conceptual Design: Modeling and Navigating Heterogeneous Design Spaces," to appear ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.
26. Hazelrigg, G. A., 1998, "A Framework for Decision-Based Engineering Design," Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 120, pp. 653-658.
27. Yoshikawa, H., 1981, "General Design Theory and a CAD System," in Man-Machine Communications in CAD/CAM, T. Sata and E. Warman, Eds. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
28. Sobek, D. K. I., 1996, "Set-based Model of Design," mechanical Engineering, vol. 118, pp. 78-81.
29. Sobek, D. K., Liker, J.and et al., 1998, "Another Look at How Toyota Integrates Product Development," Harvard Business Review, vol. July - August 1998, pp. 36-49.
30. Sobek, D. K., Ward, A.and et al., 1999, "Toyota's Principles of Set - Based Concurrent Engineering," Sloan Management Review, vol. winter 1999, pp. 67-83.
31. Ullman, D. G., 1992, The Mechanical Design Process, McGraw Hill, Inc.
32. Hirtz, J. M., Stone, R. B.and et al., 2001, "A Functional Basis for Engineering Design: Reconciling and Evolving Previous Efforts," Research in Engineering Design, vol. 13, pp. 65-82.
33. Stone, R. B. and Wood, K. L., 2000, "Development of Functional Basis of Design," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 122, pp. 359-370.
34. Verma, M. and Wood, W., 2003, "Functional Modeling: Toward a Common Language for Design and Reverse Engineering," presented at 2003 ASME International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, Chicago.
35. Gietka, P., 2002, "Using Functional Decomposition in Reverse Engineering: Indexing a Design for Manufacturing Case Base," in Mechanical Engineering. Baltimore: UMBC.
36. Verma, M. and Wood, W., 2004, "Toward Case-Based Functional Design: Matching reverse Engineering Practice with the Design Process," to appear Design Studies.
37. Segre, A., 1987, "On the Operationally/Generality Tradeoff in Explanation-Based Learning," presented at Proc. of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
38. Gietka, P., Verma, M.and et al., 2002, "Functional Modeling, Reverse Engineering, and Design Reuse," presented at DETC'02, Montreal, Canada.
39. Verma, M. and Wood, W. H., 2001, "Form Follows Function: Case-Based Learning Over Product Evolution," presented at Proc. of the ASME DETC'01, Pittsburgh, PA.
40. Roth, K., 1987, "Design Models and Design Catalogs," International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'87), pp. 60-66.
41. Boothroyd, G., Dewherst, P.and et al., 1994, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Marcel Dekker, Inc.
42. Ramasawamy, R. and Ulrich, K., 1993, "Augmenting the House of Quality with Engineering Models," Research in Engineering Design, vol. 5, pp. 70-79.
43. Specht, D., 1988, "Probabilistic Neural Networks for Classification, Mapping, or Associative Memory," presented at IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, San Diego, CA.