The Qualitative Spatial Reasoning to Mechanical Configuration

Author

Feng, Hailin ; Shao, Chenxi ; Xu, Yi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Zhejiang Forestry Univ., Linan

Volume

5

fYear

2008

fDate

18-20 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

123

Abstract

A qualitative reasoning approach is used for the spatial configuration of mechanisms in conceptual design phase. The appropriate types of mechanisms are chosen firstly for a specific reasoning task. The qualitative vectors of the basic components are given to construct the complicated mechanism. Based on the qualitative sign algebra rules, the reasoning algorithm is presented to reason the spatial configuration of the selected mechanism. The static reasoning process of the mechanism structure in-side a truck is shown finally, which indicates that the qualitative reasoning can be an assistant method when the numeric information is incomplete.

Keywords

algebra; common-sense reasoning; mechanical engineering computing; vehicle dynamics; mechanical configuration; mechanism structure; qualitative spatial reasoning; qualitative vectors; sign algebra rules; specific reasoning task; static reasoning process; Algebra; Application software; Computer science; Forestry; Fuzzy reasoning; Fuzzy systems; Information science; Physics computing; Space technology; mechanical configuration; qualitative reasoning; spatial reasoning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2008. FSKD '08. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jinan Shandong

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3305-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FSKD.2008.590

Filename

4666508