Complex product form generation in industrial design: A bookshelf based on Voronoi diagrams
Författare
Redaktör
- John S. Gero
Summary, in English
Complex product form generation methods have rarely been used within the field of industrial design. The difficulty in their use is mainly linked to constraints – such as functionality, production and cost – that apply to most products. By cou-pling a mathematically described morphology to an optimisation system, it may be possible to generate a complex product form, compliant with engineering and pro-duction constraints. In this paper we apply this general approach to the designing of a bookshelf whose structure is based on Voronoi diagrams. The algorithm be-hind the developed application used here is based on a prior work submitted else-where [1], adapted to the bookshelf problem. This second example of product form generation, which includes specific constraints, confirms the relevance of the general approach.
The handling of complex morphologies is not straightforward. Consequently, an explorative study on that theme has been performed. A user interface has been de-veloped that allows for designing a bookshelf based on Voronoi diagrams. The user interface was subsequently tested by peer designers. The results suggest that user attitudes diverge: one faction preferred maximum freedom of creation, that is, maximum control of the form creation process; the other faction wanted the appli-cation to generate a bookshelf based on their functional needs (e.g. adapt to the number and types of objects to be stored) and would ask for a “surprise me” effect for the final solution.
[1] Nordin A, Hopf A, Motte D, Bjärnemo R, Eckhardt C-C (2009) Using genetic algorithms and Voronoi diagrams in product design. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering - JCISE, submitted.
The handling of complex morphologies is not straightforward. Consequently, an explorative study on that theme has been performed. A user interface has been de-veloped that allows for designing a bookshelf based on Voronoi diagrams. The user interface was subsequently tested by peer designers. The results suggest that user attitudes diverge: one faction preferred maximum freedom of creation, that is, maximum control of the form creation process; the other faction wanted the appli-cation to generate a bookshelf based on their functional needs (e.g. adapt to the number and types of objects to be stored) and would ask for a “surprise me” effect for the final solution.
[1] Nordin A, Hopf A, Motte D, Bjärnemo R, Eckhardt C-C (2009) Using genetic algorithms and Voronoi diagrams in product design. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering - JCISE, submitted.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
701-720
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceedings of the 4th Design Computing and Cognition Conference - DCC'10
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Nyckelord
- genetics algorithm
- Voronoi diagram
- morphologies
- multi-objective optimization
- production
- machine design
- industrial design
- Renaissance 2.0
- maskinkonstruktion
Conference name
4th Design Computing and Cognition Conference - DCC'10
Conference date
2010-07-10 - 2010-07-14
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-94-007-0510-4
- ISBN: 978-94-007-0509-8