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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 17th International Conference on Manufacturing Research ICMR 2019 |
| Publisher | IOS Press |
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| Publication status | Early online date - 20 Sep 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering |
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| Publisher | IOS Press |
| Volume | 9 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2352-7528 |
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Design Gene Representations for Emergent Innovative Design. / Zhang, Wei; Price, Mark; Robinson, Trevor; Nolan, Declan; Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios; Barbhuiya, Sakil; Kyle, Stephen.
17th International Conference on Manufacturing Research ICMR 2019. IOS Press, 2019. (Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering; Vol. 9).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
TY - GEN
T1 - Design Gene Representations for Emergent Innovative Design
AU - Zhang, Wei
AU - Price, Mark
AU - Robinson, Trevor
AU - Nolan, Declan
AU - Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios
AU - Barbhuiya, Sakil
AU - Kyle, Stephen
PY - 2019/9/20
Y1 - 2019/9/20
N2 - Looking to nature for inspiration, this work presents an alternative bottom-up engineering design system, which allows unpredicted-but-valuable designs to emerge with few constraints. A set of “design genes” have been developed which trigger and control the growth of a design within a CAD system through mechanisms such as copying and stretching. The single gene is structured as a one-dimensional array representation, which includes 6 elements: the attribute, the attribute’s value or type, its active status, start and stop conditions, and dominance. A set of genes grouped together forms a “design seed” which contains all the necessary information to create the design. The design then emerges from the actions of the genes, which do not know anything about the final shape or form of the design. The growth is managed within a design environment which provides the external triggers and conditions needed to activate the genes. Different designs can emerge from the same seed in response to different environmental conditions based on their influence on the elements in the genes. This paper will outline the design gene representations and a simple-but-powerful growth strategy for the emergence of innovative designs in engineering. Numerical examples are tested to demonstrate the effectiveness of the system.
AB - Looking to nature for inspiration, this work presents an alternative bottom-up engineering design system, which allows unpredicted-but-valuable designs to emerge with few constraints. A set of “design genes” have been developed which trigger and control the growth of a design within a CAD system through mechanisms such as copying and stretching. The single gene is structured as a one-dimensional array representation, which includes 6 elements: the attribute, the attribute’s value or type, its active status, start and stop conditions, and dominance. A set of genes grouped together forms a “design seed” which contains all the necessary information to create the design. The design then emerges from the actions of the genes, which do not know anything about the final shape or form of the design. The growth is managed within a design environment which provides the external triggers and conditions needed to activate the genes. Different designs can emerge from the same seed in response to different environmental conditions based on their influence on the elements in the genes. This paper will outline the design gene representations and a simple-but-powerful growth strategy for the emergence of innovative designs in engineering. Numerical examples are tested to demonstrate the effectiveness of the system.
U2 - 10.3233/ATDE190068
DO - 10.3233/ATDE190068
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
BT - 17th International Conference on Manufacturing Research ICMR 2019
PB - IOS Press
ER -