A Method for Building Product Model Based on the Idea of Gene Engineering
Sheng Zhou · Mechanical Science and Technology · 2000
The idea of the genetic engineering is applied to the product embodiment design. Features are regarded as “DNA” of the product structure information. The inheritance relations among the parent part and its child parts were studied. The structure mutation of the parts was also studied. The propagation laws of the features as an information stream in the product tree are revealed. A method for building product model based on the idea of genetic engineering was presented. This theory has been tested on a workstation by programming.