A Novel Rapid Conceptual Design Based on Knowledge Reuse and Evolution

Designers often have difficulties in fulfilling rapid conceptual design for complex products or system due to the lack of sufficient multi-disciplinary well-structured and well-evolved knowledge. Therefore, this paper presents a knowledge-based multi-disciplinary system for the conceptual design by reusing the knowledge and synthesizing the evolutionary design methodology (EDM). With the system, the designers can easily search the existing design data and successful cases for reusing or evolving the functions and parameters for the design to meet requirements. decomposing based on the knowledge. Evolutionary design methodology (EDM) originates from the regulation of the nature and corresponds to the rule of human cognitive competence. The process of the rapid conceptual design becomes easier for designers and customers to collaborate, which benefits from its advantages of one-sided to comprehensive and from abstract to detailed. This paper introduces EDM for rapid conceptual design and a tool to display it. With the visualized chart, the EDM is easy to be mastered and applied to research for designers. Some related works are discussed in Section II. Our evolutionary design methodology is presented in Section III. Section IV implements our approach through conceptual design software. And Section V concludes this paper.

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