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Design tool
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31 Jul 2002
TL;DR: In this article, a system to leverage functional knowledge by a design tool in an engineering project includes a functional knowledge repository created by modeling a plurality of requirements of the engineering project and a requirement and space planning tool interfacing between the functional knowledge repositories and the design tool.
Abstract: A system to leverage functional knowledge by a design tool in an engineering project includes a functional knowledge repository created by modeling a plurality of requirements of the engineering project and a requirement and space planning tool interfacing between the functional knowledge repository and the design tool. The requirement and space planning tool includes a requirements wizard to capture the plurality of requirements of the engineering project, a designer graphical user interface to display a preliminary design representing the plurality of requirements and functionality to modify the plurality of requirements, and a design tool interface to transfer the plurality of requirements and the preliminary design between the design tool and the functional knowledge repository.
21 citations
01 Oct 2006
TL;DR: The main parts of the research and development environment are: the component models BBCM and BBDM, the middleware RTBOS, the real-time brain operating system, the monitoring system CMBOS, and the design environment DTBOS.
Abstract: In the field of intelligent systems, research and design approaches vary from predefined architectures to self-organizing systems. Regardless of the architectural approach, such systems may grow in size and complexity to levels where the capacities of people are strongly challenged. Such systems are commonly researched, designed and developed following several methods and with the help of a variety of software tools. In this paper we want to describe our research and development environment. It is composed of a set of tools that support our research and enable us to develop large scale intelligent systems used in our robots and in our test platforms. The main parts of our research and development environment are: the component models BBCM (Brain Bytes Component Model) and BBDM (Brain Bytes Data Model), the Middleware RTBOS (Real-Time Brain Operating System), the Monitoring system CMBOS (Control-Monitor Brain Operating System) and the Design Environment DTBOS (Design Tool for Brain Operating System). We will compare our research and development environment with others available on the market or still in research phase and we will describe some of our experiments.
20 citations
TL;DR: The methodologies behind a novel software tool that provides optimized and automated network routing algorithms, including all aspects of DH network dimensioning as required for a high level feasibility study and is scalable to even very large networks are presented.
20 citations
20 Apr 1997
TL;DR: Dynamic simulation is used to optimize the design of an existing micro-electromechanical device, called the manipulation chip (M-Chip), which contains an excess of 10000 moving actuators, called resonators, which oscillate torsionally at a few kHz.
Abstract: We use dynamic simulation to optimize the design of an existing micro-electromechanical (MEM) device, called the manipulation chip (M-Chip). This device contains an excess of 10000 moving actuators, called resonators, which oscillate torsionally at a few kHz. Parts dropped on the chip's surface are conveyed towards a unique direction. Given the enormous number of moving parts, it is impractical to attempt to measure the device's (or part's) dynamic state during a manipulation task. Yet, knowing this information is crucial for redesign and optimization. We make use of a powerful dynamic simulation tool, called "Impulse", to generate synthetic measurements over a range of experiments. From these results, we suggest redesign options which debug existing problems and improve the feed rate. The array is found to behave similar to a viscous spring-loaded conveyor belt; most of its energy is spent on driving the part vertically, calling for a more efficient design.
20 citations
01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this paper, the first stage in the development of a non-linear finite element program for the analysis of masonry (and other) arch bridges is described and a brief review of other related work is also included as are some provisional computer applications.
Abstract: The report describes the first stage in the development of a non-linear finite element program for the analysis of masonry (and other) arch bridges. The main elements of this first stage involve the finite element theory and the structure of the computer program in addition to the data input requirements. A brief review of other related work is also included as are some provisional computer applications. For the present, the computer program must be considered as a research rather than a design tool but it is intended that a second stage of development and testing will lead to a more user-orientated computer program. (Author/TRRL)
20 citations