Generating multiple new designs from a sketch

Conference · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:430778

Stahovich, T F; Davis, R; Shrobe, H ^[1]

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1. MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab., Cambridge, MA (United States)

We describe a program called SKETCHIT that transforms a single sketch of a mechanical device into multiple families of new designs. It represents each of these families with a {open_quotes}BEP-Model,{close_quotes} a parametric model augmented with constraints that ensure the device produces the desired behavior. The program is based on qualitative configuration space (qc-space), a novel representation that captures mechanical behavior while abstracting away its implementation. The program employs a paradigm of abstraction and resynthesis: it abstracts the initial sketch into qc-space then maps from qc-space to new implementations.

• OSTI ID: 430778
• Report Number(s): CONF-960876-; TRN: 96:006521-0153
• Resource Relation: Conference: 13. National conference on artifical intelligence and the 8. Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference, Portland, OR (United States), 4-8 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and the eighth innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference. Volume 1 and 2; PB: 1626 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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