Design of Agent-based Collaborative Design Platform for Intelligent CAD

Author

Zhou, Zude ; Hu, Xiuyin ; Cui, Xingran

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Eng., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2008

fDate

2-4 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

208

Lastpage

211

Abstract

Intelligent computer aided design (ICAD) is an important direction to the development of CAD. The multi-agent technology is applied to the traditional CAD. An agent-based collaborative design platform for Intelligent CAD(Co-Cad platform for short) is designed in this paper. It uses the JADE(Java agent development framework) as developing agent platform and adopts Jess as the rule engine of the expert system. Agents can communicate and collaborate by means of JADE platform. Adopting the expert system, the platform can help designers to reason and make decisions. Multimedia technology is also integrated into Co-Cad platform, communication and identity authentication among collaborative designers from different areas are more convenient. Finally, the process of collaborative design using Co-Cad platform is demonstrated.

Keywords

Java; expert systems; groupware; intelligent design assistants; message authentication; multi-agent systems; multimedia communication; JADE platform; Java agent development framework; agent-based collaborative design platform; co-Cad platform; developing agent platform; expert system; identity authentication; intelligent CAD; intelligent computer aided design; multiagent technology; multimedia technology; rule engine; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Design automation; Expert systems; Intelligent agent; Machine intelligence; Process design; Agent; Collaborative Design; Intelligent CAD; JADE; Jess;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 2008. M2VIP 2008. 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Auckland

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3779-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-473-13532-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMVIP.2008.4749534

Filename

4749534