System model and implementation of constraint-based distributed intelligent conceptual design system

Author(s):  
Yurong Xu ◽  
Shouqian Sun ◽  
Zongkai Lin ◽  
Yingxin Zhao
2011 ◽  
Vol 308-310 ◽  
pp. 538-541
Author(s):  
Yuan Chen

An effort is made to give a description of a computer-aided conceptual design system. A novel Function-Action-Behavior-Mechanism (FABM) modeling framework is proposed to realize mapping from the overall function to principle solution according to customer’s requirements. Expansion and modification rules in the demand behavior are developed to extend the innovation of principle solution. A case study on pan mechanism design for cooking robot is presented to show the procedure of how to implement the intelligent reasoning based on the FABM model.


Author(s):  
Jonathan S. Colton ◽  
Mark P. Ouellette

Abstract This paper presents a summary of research into the development and implementation of a domain independent, computer-based model for the conceptual design of complex mechanical systems (Ouellette, 1992). The creation of such a design model includes the integration of four major concepts: (1) The use of a graphical display for visualizing the conceptual design attributes; (2) The proper representation of the complex data and diverse knowledge required to design the system; (3) The integration of quality design methods into the conceptual design; and (4) The modeling of the conceptual design process as a mapping between functions and forms. Using the design of an automobile as a case study, a design environment was created which consisted of a distributed problem solving paradigm and a parametric graphical display. The requirements of the design problem with respect to data representation and design processing were evaluated and a process model was specified. The resulting vehicle design system consists of a tight integration between a blackboard system and a parametric design system. The completed system allows a designer to view graphical representations of the candidate conceptual designs that the blackboard system generates.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4B) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Chen ◽  
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Jie Hu ◽  
Weixing Chen ◽  
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...  

The trend of inter-disciplinary conceptual design synthesis requires designers to involve more and more distributed multi-disciplinary design resources. Therefore, this paper proposes a graph-based computerized optimal conceptual design synthesis to help designers explore novel design schemes within the distributed multi-disciplinary resource environment. The design resources tightly related to the design goal can be extracted from the huge resource environment by a proposed searching engine. The optimal design scheme can be generated from these related design resources by a proposed graph-based algorithm. A set of computer applications called Automatic Conceptual Design System (ACDS) is established to verify the feasibility of this proposed conceptual design synthesis, and a garbage power system’s conceptual design is completed by this software prototype.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Endiah Puji Hastuti ◽  
Muhammad Subekti ◽  
Sukmanto Dibyo ◽  
M. Darwis Isnaini

ABSTRAK OPTIMASI DESAIN TERMOHIDROLIKA TERAS DAN SISTEM PENDINGIN REAKTOR RISET INOVATIF DAYA TINGGI. Implementasi reaktor inovasi telah diterapkan pada berbagai reaktor riset baru yang saat ini sedang dibangun.  Pada saat ini BATAN sedang merancang desain konseptual reaktor riset daya tinggi yang telah masuk pada tahap optimasi desain. Spesifikasi desain konseptual reaktor riset inovatif adalah reaktor tipe kolam berpendingin air dan reflektor D2O. Teras reaktor memiliki kisi 5x5 dengan 16 bahan bakar dan 4 batang kendali. Teras reaktor berada di dalam tabung berisi D2O yang berfungsi sebagai posisi iradiasi. Daya reaktor 50 MW didesain untuk membangkitkan fluks neutron termal sebesar 5x1014 n/cm2s. Teras reaktor berbentuk kompak dan menggunakan bahan bakar U9Mo-Al dengan tingkat muat uranium 7-9 gU/cm3. Desain termohidrolika yang mencakup pemodelan, perhitungan dan analisis kecukupan pendingin dibuat sinergi dengan desain fisika teras agar keselamatan reaktor terjamin. Makalah ini bertujuan menyampaikan hasil analisis perhitungan termohidrolika teras dan sistem reaktor riset inovatif pada kondisi tunak. Analisis dilakukan menggunakan program perhitungan yang telah tervalidasi, masing-masing adalah Caudvap, PARET-ANL, Fluent dan ChemCad 6.4.1. Hasil perhitungan menunjukkan bahwa pembangkitan panas yang tinggi dapat dipindahkan tanpa menyebabkan pendidihan dengan menerapkan desain teras reaktor bertekanan, di samping itu desain awal komponen utama sistem pembuangan panas yang terintegrasi telah dilakukan, sehingga konseptual desain termohidrolika RRI-50 dapat diselesaikan. Kata kunci : reaktor riset inovatif, Caudvap, PARET-ANL, Fluent, ChemCad 6.4.1.  ABSTRACT THERMALHYDRAULIC DESIGN AND COOLING SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION OF THE HIGH POWER INOVATIVE RESEARCH REACTOR. Reactor innovation has been implemented in a variety of new research reactors that currently are being built. At this time BATAN is designing a conceptual design of the high power research reactor which has entered the stage of design optimization. The conceptual design specifications of the innovative research reactor is a pool type reactor, water-cooled and reflected by D2O. The reactor core has a 5 x 5 grid with 16 fuels and 4 control rods, which is inserted into a tube containing D2O as an irradiation position. Reactor power of 50 MW is designed to generate thermal neutron flux of 5x1014 n/cm2s. The compact core reactor is using U9Mo-Al fuel with uranium loading of 7-9 gU/cm3. Thermal hydraulic design includes modeling, calculation and analysis of the adequacy of coolant created synergy with the physical design of reactor safety. This paper aims to deliver the results of thermal hydraulic calculation and system design analysis at steady state condition. The analysis was done using various calculation programs that have been validated, i.e. Caudvap, PARET-ANL, Fluent and ChemCad 6.4.1. The calculation results show that the heat generation can be transfered without causing a two phase flow boiling by applying pressurized reactor core design, while the main components of initial design system with an integrated heat dissipation has been done, to complete the conceptual design of the RRI-50 thermalhydraulics. Keywords : inovative research reactor, Caudvap, PARET-ANL, Fluent, ChemCad 6.4.1.


Author(s):  
Bin Chen ◽  
You-Bai Xie

The trend of large-scale development of design industry requires efficient and full use of the rich design resources in the distributed multi-disciplinary resource environment. However, the designers are susceptible to many subjective and objective impacts, like knowledge structure, computing capability, geographic position, and administrative division. These impacts make the usage of design resources unstable and inefficient. Therefore, this paper proposed a computer-assisted automatic conceptual design system (CACDS). This system assumes that the design resources in the distributed multi-disciplinary resource environment exist in the form of functional elements with the same format, so that, the geographic, administrative, and disciplinary barriers in the design process can be broken, and the design resources can be fully used. CACDS is based on a group of basic concepts and their representations, its core is a functional solution generating algorithm, which is used to automatically generate functional solutions. As the result of the conceptual design, these functional solutions are also the starting point of the following detail design phase. Finally, a lighting system for underground greenhouse is designed as an illustrative case to validate the feasibility of the proposed CACDS.


1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bons ◽  
J. Hanlon ◽  
S. Spencer

Since space power conversion systems must operate both in the sun and in the earth’s shadow, they seldom encounter design operating conditions. As a consequence, consideration of off-design performance is essential in the preliminary design of these systems. To illustrate the necessity and utility of an off-design system model, this paper presents the results of a study of the solar dynamic closed Brayton cycle power conversion system for use on the NASA Space Station.


Author(s):  
Johan Jansson ◽  
Imre Horváth ◽  
Joris S. M. Vergeest

Abstract Previously, we have described the theory of a general mechanics model for non-rigid solids (Jansson, Vergeest, 2000). In this paper, we will describe and analyze the implementation, i.e. algorithms and analysis of their time complexity. We will reason that a good (better than O(n2), where n is the number of elements in the system) time complexity is mandatory for a scalable real time simulation system. We will show that, in simplified form, all our algorithms are O(n lg n). We have not been able to formally analyze the algorithms in non-simplified form, we will however informally discuss the expected performance. The entire system will be empirically shown to perform slightly worse than O(n lg n), for a specific range and typical input. We will also present a working prototype implementation and show it can be used for real time evaluation of reasonably complex systems. Finally we will reason about how such a system can be used in the conceptual design community as a simulation of traditional design tools.


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