Collaborative Research: A Biomimetic Concept Generator for Engineering Design

协作研究：工程设计的仿生概念生成器

• 批准号: 0800772
• 负责人: Daniel McAdams
• 金额: $ 25.49万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0800772&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Biomimetic; Concept; Generator

Collaborative Research: A Biomimetic Concept Generator for Engineering DesignDaniel A. McAdamsThe research objective of this award is to explore and develop tools that will expand the use of biological analogies in engineering design. The results of this research will enable design engineers to access the wealth of elegant and ingenious approaches to problem solving that are found naturally present in biological systems. There are several challenges that prevent designers from taking full advantage of the biological knowledge domain. The first and most significant obstacle is that most engineers do not have sufficient knowledge of biology to identify an analogy from which to develop an engineered solution. To address this challenge, this research has two main thrusts. The first is the creation of a thesaurus that translates the terminology of function as used in engineering to the terminology of function as used in biology. The second is the use of novel, new computational search tools to access repositories of biological knowledge in an effort to data mine biological systems for functional analogies Thus, as engineers move a design from function to form, they can search nature for form solutions. If successful, this proposed research makes fundamental contributions to engineering design through creation of a biomimetic design repository and associated concept generator. Key contributions include better cross-domain search strategies on natural-language knowledge to identify novel biological analogies, and better mechanisms to enable understanding of biological phenomena so they can be more successfully applied to solve engineering problems. The biomimetic solutions will be immediately available to both academia and practicing engineering designers as the research is performed through integration in an NSF supported Engineering Virtual Organization. Curriculum development will provide a testbed for using this biomimetic repository for concept generation.

协作研究：工程设计Daniel A. McAdams的仿生概念生成器该奖项的研究目标是探索和开发工具，以扩大生物类似物在工程设计中的使用。这项研究的结果将使设计工程师能够访问生物系统中自然存在的大量优雅而巧妙的方法解决问题。有几个挑战可以阻止设计师充分利用生物知识领域。第一个也是最重要的障碍是，大多数工程师没有足够的生物学知识来确定开发工程解决方案的类比。为了应对这一挑战，这项研究有两个主要推力。首先是创建词库，该词库将工程中使用的功能术语转化为生物学中使用的功能术语。第二个是使用新颖的新计算搜索工具来访问生物知识的存储库，以努力向功能类似物数据矿山生物系统，因此，随着工程师将设计从功能转移到形式，他们可以搜索自然解决方案。如果成功，这项提出的研究通过创建仿生设计存储库和相关概念生成器来为工程设计做出基本贡献。主要贡献包括更好的跨域搜索策略，以识别新型生物学类比，以及更好地理解生物学现象的机制，以便更成功地应用它们来解决工程问题。由于研究通过在NSF支持的工程虚拟组织中进行的整合进行研究，因此学术界和执业工程设计师将立即使用仿生解决方案。课程开发将为使用此仿生存储库进行概念生成提供测试台。