Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professor Dr.-Ing. Peter Eberhard
Subject Area
Mechanics
Term
since 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 501890093
In advanced design workflows, usually large-scale, simulation-driven parameter studies are typically conducted and manually inspected to iteratively refine candidate designs. This process heavily relies on experience and expert knowledge, making it not only time- and resource-consuming but also largely subjective rather than guided by formalized mathematical objectives. Current computer-based support, primarily employed in mechanics and dynamics for system analysis, is no longer sufficient. To respect ecological and societal responsibilities, account for stricter and more complex regulations, and tackle emerging challenges, future systems design has to become increasingly multidisciplinary. The Priority Programme SPP 2353 “Daring More Intelligence” aims at the development of design assistance systems combining methods from optimisation, artificial intelligence, and dynamics/mechanics to assist in and partially automate the interdisciplinary design of engineering systems. This will not only result in designs that are actually optimal with respect to formalized criteria, but such design assistants may equip design engineers with an artificial intuition supplementing their own specialized expertise. During the first phase, benefiting from all the programme activities led by the coordinator and the SPP Postdoc, projects within SPP 2353 worked from the very beginning together to research design assistant components with accessible interfaces that can be combined modularly to build up holistic, assisted design procedures. Methods from artificial intelligence were integrated with system analysis and optimization to consider design criteria at earlier stages, enabling more fundamental improvements to resulting systems compared to the incremental refinements following established design paradigms. Among the many outcomes, two major joint SPP papers involving nearly all the sub-projects marked a successful culmination of the first phase of the Priority Programme. To build on this success in the second funding period, assisted by the coordination from the coordinator and SPP Postdoc, the exchange and networking activities should be sustained, which continuously provide essential opportunities for achieving well-defined and compatible interfaces between the design assistant components across subprojects. In the second phase, all projects should work on the replacement of subjective evaluation criteria by formalised objectives, the development of methods for the flexible coupling of different analysis programs, and the validation of design assistant systems in benchmark processes. Additionally, a focus will also be on the re-usage of already available data, e.g., from existing measurements. In the proposal it is described in detail which funds are requested for this purpose and which activities are planned.
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