DESIGN REPOSITORY & ANALOGY COMPUTATION VIA UNIT-LANGUAGE ANALYSIS (DRACULA) MATCHING ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Marco Cantamessa, Gaetano Cascini, Dorian Marjanovic, Srinivasan Venkataraman
Author: Briana, Lucero; Julie, Linsey; Turner, Cameron
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: Colorado School of Mines Golden, United States of America; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, United States of America
Section: Design Theory and Research Methodology, Design Processes
Page(s): 245-256
ISBN: 978-1-904670-65-0
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
Analogical reasoning is not the only approach for achieving innovation, but it is a highly effective and noted method. To avoid relying on chance identification of analogies through unique individual knowledge and experience, this research considers the potential impact of a system where an engineer could begin with their existing design, specify to a computer a set of critical functions and desired design performance improvements, and be returned with design analogies intended to inspire avenues for design improvements. This system, called Design Analogy Performance Parameter System (D-APPS), implements performance metric matching to retrieve examples and stimulate analogical mapping, enabling innovative design advances. The D-APPS software, Design Repository & Analogy Computation via Unit-Language Analysis (DRACULA), produces matches using topological isomorphism. The user provides information that derives a graph using the DRACULA algorithm to locate a matching graph set in an analogy space of the critical pairs and critical chains. DRACULA receives input from the user as a single flow associated with an engineering parameter, and a sequential set of critical functions.
Keywords: Bio-Inspired Design, Design Engineering, Conceptual Design