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Virtual Function Generators: Representing and Reusing Underlying Design Concepts in Conceptual Synthesis of Mechanisms for Function Generation

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Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 1999)

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This paper describes an approach to represent and reuse efficiently the underlying design concepts in the existing mechanisms in order to synthesize mechanisms for function-generation and motion-transmission. A notion of virtual function generator is introduced to conceptualize and represent all possible underlying design concepts in the existing mechanisms. The virtual function generators are extracted from the existing mechanisms and composed of one or more primitive mechanisms together with the involved functions. They serve as new conceptual building blocks in the conceptual synthesis of design alternatives. The whole design concept or sub-concepts of the mechanisms can be represented and reused efficiently by the notion of virtual function generator. New mechanisms are generated by extracting and combining the underlying design concepts via the virtual function generators. The capability of the proposed approach is illustrated with a design example.

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  1. Institute of Advanced Machinery and Design, Seoul National University, Korea

    Younghyun Han

  2. School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shinlim, Kwanak, Seoul, 151-742, Korea

    Kunwoo Lee

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Sauerwiesen 6, D 67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Klaus-Dieter Althoff

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, D 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3682, Laramie, WY, 82072, USA

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Han, Y., Lee, K. (1999). Virtual Function Generators: Representing and Reusing Underlying Design Concepts in Conceptual Synthesis of Mechanisms for Function Generation. In: Althoff, KD., Bergmann, R., Branting, L. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1650. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48508-2_33

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