Medial Zones: Foundations and Engineering Applications

内侧区域：基础和工程应用

基本信息

批准号：
1200089
负责人：
Horea Ilies
金额：
$ 37.5万
依托单位：
University of Connecticut
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-09-01 至 2016-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1200089&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Medial Zones Foundations Engineering Applications

项目摘要

The research objective of this award is to develop a fundamentally new approach to understand and establish spatial properties of mechanical parts in terms of simple interacting constructs related to part functionality and manufacturing processes. In the context of engineering design, the novel concept of a medial zone provides an explicit representation of the correspondence between mechanical/functional characteristics and spatial properties. More precisely, medial zones provide topologically valid and parameterized initial design solutions. Due to the fact that the medial zones fuse some of the critical geometric and topological properties of both the domain itself and of its medial axis, reformulating problems in terms of medial zones affords the ?best of both worlds? in a variety of applications such as shape synthesis in conceptual design, robotic and autonomous navigation, and design automation. If successful, the results of this research will provide the first combinatorial model of a part that can be used to explicitly represent the correspondence between mechanical/functional characteristics of shapes and their spatial properties. This, in turn, provides a powerful paradigm for automatically synthesizing topologically correct, and functionally valid mechanical designs. Furthermore, this new framework will stimulate critical new avenues of interdisciplinary research at UConn and beyond. The intuitive nature of geometric skeletons will be used as a vehicle to illustrate non-intuitive engineering behavior during targeted outreach activities to K-12 students, teachers and local school district serving groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in engineering.

该奖项的研究目标是开发一种从根本上建立新方法，以与零件功能和制造过程相关的简单交互结构来理解和建立机械零件的空间特性。在工程设计的背景下，内侧区域的新概念提供了机械/功能特征和空间特性之间对应关系的明确表示。更确切地说，内侧区域提供拓扑和参数化的初始设计解决方案。由于内侧区域融合了域本身及其内侧轴的一些关键几何和拓扑特性，从而在内侧区域重新制定了问题，这两个世界中最好的是？在各种应用中，例如概念设计中的形状合成，机器人和自主导航以及设计自动化。如果成功，这项研究的结果将提供一个可以用来明确表示形状的机械/功能特性及其空间特性之间的对应关系的零件组合模型。反过来，这为自动合成拓扑正确和功能有效的机械设计提供了强大的范式。此外，这个新框架将刺激UConn及其他地区跨学科研究的关键新途径。几何骨骼的直观性质将被用作一种工具，以向K-12学生，老师和当地学区服务集团进行有针对性的外展活动中的非直觉工程行为，这些组织传统在工程领域的代表性不足。