A Tool for Automated Synthesis and Side-Effects Detection in Sensor Designs
Year: 2011
Editor: Chakrabarti, A.
Author: Chakrabarti,Amaresh; Regno,Riccardo; Sarkar,Biplab; V.Srinivasan
Section: Design Creativity, Synthesis,Evaluation and Optimisation
Page(s): 581-589
Abstract
Side-effects in a system are defined as effects which affect the intended working of the system. Unforeseen side effects are often blamed to be the cause of avoidable accidents in the history of engineering, the consequences of which are often disastrous. This research explains the development and evaluation of a computer-based tool to: synthesize alternative solution principles from a given sensor function, synthesize alternative conceptual structures for each solution principle and detect side-effects in these designs
Keywords: Sensor, side-effect, synthesis, solution principle, conceptual structure.