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Encapsulating and representing the knowledge on the evaluation of an engineering system
This paper proposes a cross-disciplinary methodology for a fundamental question in product development: How can the innovation patterns during the evolution of an engineering system (ES) be encapsulated, so that it can later be mined through data mining analysis methods? Reverse engineering answers the question of which components a developed engineering system consists of, and how the components interact to make the working product. TRIZ answers the
question of which problem-solving principles can be, or have been employed in developing that system, in comparison to its earlier versions, or with respect to similar systems. While these two methodologies have been very popular, to the best of our knowledge, there does not yet exist a methodology that reverseengineers and encapsulates and represents the information regarding the complete product development process in abstract terms. This paper suggests such a methodology, that consists of mathematical formalism, graph visualization, and database representation. The proposed approach is
demonstrated by analyzing the design and development process for a prototype wrist-rehabilitation robot
Knowledge Organization Research in the last two decades: 1988-2008
We apply an automatic topic mapping system to records of publications in
knowledge organization published between 1988-2008. The data was collected from
journals publishing articles in the KO field from Web of Science database
(WoS). The results showed that while topics in the first decade (1988-1997)
were more traditional, the second decade (1998-2008) was marked by a more
technological orientation and by the appearance of more specialized topics
driven by the pervasiveness of the Web environment
Family of 2-simplex cognitive tools and their application for decision-making and its justifications
Urgency of application and development of cognitive graphic tools for usage
in intelligent systems of data analysis, decision making and its justifications
is given. Cognitive graphic tool "2-simplex prism" and examples of its usage
are presented. Specificity of program realization of cognitive graphics tools
invariant to problem areas is described. Most significant results are given and
discussed. Future investigations are connected with usage of new approach to
rendering, cross-platform realization, cognitive features improving and
expanding of n-simplex family.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, conferenc
SINGULAB - A Graphical user Interface for the Singularity Analysis of Parallel Robots based on Grassmann-Cayley Algebra
This paper presents SinguLab, a graphical user interface for the singularity
analysis of parallel robots. The algorithm is based on Grassmann-Cayley
algebra. The proposed tool is interactive and introduces the designer to the
singularity analysis performed by this method, showing all the stages along the
procedure and eventually showing the solution algebraically and graphically,
allowing as well the singularity verification of different robot poses.Comment: Advances in Robot Kinematics, Batz sur Mer : France (2008
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