Integrating Agents and Web Services into Cooperative Design Platform of Vehicle Headlights

Web-based distributed cooperative design is an important technology in the computer supported advanced manufacturing. After analyzing the advantages and drawbacks of the existing research and work, this paper presents an agent-based cooperative design platform which utilizes Web service to realize interoperability in vehicle headlights design. Compared with other strategies, we put emphases on real-time communication between designers and high speed browse of all models. Our platform also has a good compatibility with various model-design kits by adopting intelligent agents. The proposed approach provides designers with excellent human-computer interaction, more flexibility and enables distributed collaborators to cooperate efficiently. The platform can greatly shorten product development period as well as time to market.

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