IMPLEMENTATION CBR SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF WORK-HOLDERS

摘要

The paper describes an approach for computer aided design of modular work-holders. This approach involves the creation an appropriate design environment, which fosters communication between various knowledge sources involved in work-holder design. The design environment is expected to accommodate different modeling paradigms, knowledge- and databases within a single, integrated framework, a design space (DS). The DS model is based on the use of decomposition and categorization methods. The fact is that much of work-holder designs are not very different from what has been done in the past. The case base reasoning approach (CBR-tool) for a solution of problems is applied. To show how the proposed technique might be useful, we describe a specific instantiation of this approach, in a prototype system for design of work-holders.