本体及其在机械工程中的应用综述

Ontology & its applications in mechanical engineering

本体研究方面的综述文章很多,但尚未发现本体在机械工程中的应用综述。因此,有必要对本体以及本体在机械工程中的应用现状进行总结。首先,介绍了本体的基本概念及本体工程的有关内容;其次,介绍了机械工程中用于产品设计的工程本体、产品信息模型本体、产品数据语义交换本体;最后,通过总结机械工程的行业特色,有针对性的提出了机械工程中本体的应用框架,总结并展望了本体在机械工程领域的应用前景。阐明了通过将本体与问题求解方法等结合,是提高机械设计自动化程度的有效途径。

To deal with the problem of no survey is available for the applications of ontologies in the field of mechanical engineering, a survey of recent progress on ontology-related research and the applications in mechanical engineering was presented. Firstly, basic concepts of ontology and some aspects of ontological engineering were introduced. Then, three ontologies applied in product design of mechanical engineering were studied, which included engineering ontology, product information model ontology, and product data semantic exchange ontology. Finally, by summarizing the characteristics of mechanical engineering, the ontology application framework for mechanical engineering was proposed. Furthermore, the development trends in the applications of ontologies in the field of mechanical engineering were discussed. It was also revealed that combining ontology with Problem-Solving Method （PSM） was the effective way to improve the mechanical design automation.