COOPERATIVE DESIGN UNDER CONCURRENT ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT

This paper outlines a concurrent engineering environment that supports interaction between members of a geographically dispersed multidisciplinary team who is engaged in engineering design activities. Some ideas of engineering design, especially conceptual design are reviewed. A deeper scientific analysis of intelligent design is discussed. A new problem solving strategy and methodologies to implement cooperative design are proposed. Finally, a conceptual model of a blackboard system for accomplishing conceptual design automation is presented. Its fundamental principles, system organization and key implementation techniques are investigated in detail.

A Collaborative Framework for Mould Design Based on Service-Oriented Architecture

Aiming at improving the traditional object-oriented three-layer architecture for collaborative design, a service-oriented framework for mould design is established by adding a Web service layer to decoupling the direct linking of user interface to functional modules,making the system being platform independent and programming language independent,greatly facilitating the reuse of existing software and hardware resources. .NET technology is adopted to implement the framework. An example scenario is introduced to demonstrate how the system works.

MODELING METHOD OF 4D INFORMATION MODEL FOR COOPERATIVE DESIGN OF MECHANICAL PRODUCTS

The continuous developing features in the design of mechanical product and based on 3D entity model is aimed at, and the extension of the 4-dimensional model with the process of designing, the knowledge described model on the level of semantic understanding and summarizing the designing process and the way of discovering knowledge from multi-information model are studied. On the basis of designing the broad sensed collaborative system, through discussion of the relationship between the implicit knowledge of the users and the designing knowledge as well as commanding all the designing links, taking advantage of the way of concluding and deducting in the concept of the designers, the synthetic knowledge unit formed in the dynamic process from the conception design t9 the last design is schemed out, and the knowledge discovered principle in the dynamic designing process of the mechanical products and the key technology in its implementation under the milieu of network is brought forward.

Framework for a System of Systems Design Oriented to Evolution

A framework was proposed for designing a system of systems(SoS) that takes account of the system' s evolution over time.Given the design space of the SoS analysis,construct a multiepoch scenario design,SoS optimization,and robust designs.A hybrid model based on multi-agent and system dynamic models was used to analyze the evolution of an SoS and find robust designs.The framework can help decision makers generate a robust SoS structure based on the SoS' s capabilities over multiple epochs.

Geometry Services Construction Based on Ontology towards Cooperative Design in Cloud Environment

APIs of CAD system could be encapsulated to construct web services so as to provide standard access interfaces for web-based cooperative design. However, lack of semantic supporting make integration of heterogeneous modelling system limited to operational level. On the purpose of carrying out cooperative design in a flexible cloud environment, an intelligent and effective support mechanism is needed for mass and complex interaction in cooperative work. Therefore, Ontology-based Geometry Modeling Services Environment （OGMSE） is provided to realize a knowledge-level geometry modeling so as to supported semantic 3D model management and intelligent operation support. First, CAD APIs are encapsulated into web service for web invocation. Then, ontology contained structural semantic and operational semantic is built for management of models and modeling process. Lastly, conception-driven modeling mechanism is built to invocate service according to interaction requirement, thus to realize conception-level cooperative design. Based on an open geometry engine, a prototype system has been developed. The result shows that the approach provides a reference direction for large-scale application on the network.

NC Layout Design Based on Agent

This paper presents a NC layout design model based on agent. It takes each module as an autonomous entity participating in design process, and the product design process is described by the organized cooperative work of agents. This paper gives in detail the function and architecture of agent and the agent oriented design paradigm. The Cooperative Muti-agent NC Layout Design (CMNCD) system incorporating the strategy of concurrency can greatly increase the design efficacy. The prototype of the design model can realize some simple functions of creativity with the help of users.

Application of CGI in Cooperative Design Environment

The paper analyzes the principles and applications of CGI for collaborative design. The utility model possessing broad reference values is set up and its implementation techniques are presented in detail.

Design Agents with Sharing Learning Mechanism

This paper introduces the structure of a multiagent design system with machine learning mechanism and its application in mechanical design. Firs of are it introduces a hierarchical structure of the multiagent design system and takes a mechanical design system as an example. This structure provides a computational platform for cooperative design and sharing learning of multiple design agents. The paper analyses the principle of design activity and puts forward the architecture and learning mechanism of a design agent in datail. The architecture of a design agent is for providing support to learning activity and is based on the analysis of the design activity This is followed by a description of the design knowledge base framework and sharing learning process of multiagent. The main advantages of the system is that complex design task can be done by multiagent in a distributed environment and leaming results can be shared by a group of design agents. This system has partly been implemented in Visual C++ based on Mechanical Desktop 2.0 environment.

XML Schema Modeling through UML Class Diagram

A three-step XML Schema modeling method is presented, namely first establishing a diagram of conceptual modeling, then transforming it to UML class diagram and finally mapping it to XML Schema. A case study of handling furniture design data is given to illustrate the detail of conversion process.

A novel cooperative mid-course guidance scheme for multiple intercepting missiles

In the interception engagement,if the target movement information is not accurate enough for the mid-course guidance of intercepting missiles,the interception mission may fail as a result of large handover errors.This paper proposes a novel cooperative mid-course guidance scheme for multiple missiles to intercept a target under the condition of large detection errors.Under this scheme,the launch and interception moments are staggered for different missiles.The earlier launched missiles can obtain a relatively accurate detection to the target during their terminal guidance,based on which the latter missiles are permitted to eliminate the handover error in the mid-course guidance.A significant merit of this scheme is that the available resources are fully exploited and less missiles are needed to achieve the interception mission.To this end,first,the design of cooperative handover parameters is formulated as an optimization problem.Then,an algorithm based on Monte Carlo sampling and stochastic approximation is proposed to solve this optimization problem,and the convergence of the algorithm is proved as well.Finally,simulation experiments are carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed cooperative scheme and algorithm.