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Modern product development becomes increasingly collaborative and integrated, which raises the need for effectively and efficiently sharing and re-using design knowledge in a distributed and collaborative environment. To address this need, a framework is developed in this research to support design knowledge representation, retrieval, reasoning and fusion, which takes account of structural, functional and behavioral data, various design attributes and knowledge reasoning cases. Specifically, a multi-level knowledge representation based on the Base Object Model (BOM) is proposed to enable knowledge sharing using Web services technologies. On this basis, a multi-level knowledge reuse method is developed to support the retrieval, matching and assembly of knowledge records. Due to the tree structure of BOM, both depth-first and breadth-first searching strategies are employed in the retrieval algorithm while a novel measure is proposed to evaluate similarity. Moreover, a method based on the D-S evidence theory is developed to enable knowledge fusion and thus support effective decision-making. The framework has been implemented and integrated into an HLA-based simulation platform on which the development of a missile simulation example is conducted. It is demonstrated in the case study that the proposed framework and methods are useful and effective for design knowledge representation and reuse.
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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61374163), the National Key Technology R&D Program (Grant No. 2012BAF15G00), the National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program) of China (Grant No.2013AA041302).
Gongzhuang Peng is currently a doctoral student of the National Engineering Research Centre of Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS-ERC) in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his Bachelor degree in the Department of Automation from Beihang University, Beijing, in 2012. His research interest includes multidisciplinary modeling, collaborative simulation, and knowledge management.
Huachao Mao is currently a doctoral student of Viterbi School of Engineering in University of Southern California. He received his Bachelor degree in the Department of Automation in Beihang University, Beijing, in 2012; Master degree in the National Engineering Research Centre of Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS-ERC) in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include multidisciplinary modeling and collaborative simulation.
Hongwei Wang is currently a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Design at the School of Engineering, University of Portsmouth. Prior to joining the school, he completed his PhD in the Engineering Design Centre in the University of Cambridge. He obtained a BEng (Electronic and Information Sciences) with distinction from Zhejiang University and an MSc (Control Science and Engineering) with distinction from Tsinghua University in 2004, 2007 respectively. His research interests are in the application of information and computing technologies to address specific design issues, for example, knowledge and information management, collaborative product development, collaborative modeling and simulation and sustainable design.
Heming Zhang is currently a professor in the National Engineering Research Centre of Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS-ERC) in Tsinghua University, China. He received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Zhejiang University (China) in 1995. He joined the faculty of Automation Department in Tsinghua University after two years of Postdoctoral Fellow in CIMS-ERC. His research interests include multidisciplinary modeling and collaborative simulation, service oriented modeling and simulation, concurrent and collaborative design.
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Peng, G., Mao, H., Wang, H. et al. BOM-based design knowledge representation and reasoning for collaborative product development. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 25, 159–176 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-016-5306-4
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