Dynamic Design Intents Capture with Formal Ontology and Perdurants Object Concept for Collaborative Product Design
Md Tarique Hasan Khan, Frédéric Demoly, Kyoung-Yun Joseph Kim · 2016
Loss of design intents and related information throughout the lifecycle of products are common. Capturing design intents of an assembly, which include a temporal (dynamic) stages, is even harder. This research work aims to enhance the spatiotemporal mereotopology (STM) based ontology in tune with the contemporary efforts in this research domain. The main idea with such STM ontology is to capture dynamic design intents and develop an integrated data translation framework from Computer Aided Design (CAD) system to a visualization system. This integration framework is intended to enhance design sharing in a collaborative environment. In this paper, the framework is demonstrated with a simple mechanical assembly that includes rotational, reciprocating and linear motions, directly related to dynamic design intents.