Abstract
Presented paper speaks about the problem of conceptual design stage simulation support. Simulation support is a very useful part of conceptual design system due to capability to verify ideas in early design stages. The problem excluding classical simulation tools is lack of information about designed device, is inconsistency and uncertainty. Thus specialised tool must be developed. The component-oriented editor of component descriptions and models is presented. This tool enables to describe components not only in terms of algebraic equations, but also by fuzzy rules. The problem of dynamic work with uncertainty representation during simulation and design processes is also solved. Presented tool also differentiates from standard tools like Mathematica or Matlab in its ability to work with component-based models, where each component is described from many aspects and only few of them are valid in concrete use. The tool must be able to select relations relevant in concrete simulation task and omit the rest.
Highlights
Conceptual design is a term representing design activities before own modelling and drawing of the system by any CAD system
The conceptual design is a process of formulation and precisiation of vaguely formulated preconditions, function descriptions and structure of a designed system
Each component-based simulation tool consists from two fundamental parts: component editor and own simulator
Summary
Conceptual design is a term representing design activities before own modelling and drawing of the system by any CAD system. The conceptual design is a process of formulation and precisiation of vaguely formulated preconditions, function descriptions and structure of a designed system. Due to lack of information in these early design stages, we must use proper techniques, especially qualitative. In field of conceptual design we expect that such a tool is capable to provide part-dimensioning work and to simulate under conditions of uncertainty. Human designers decrease design problem complexity by decomposition techniques This approach enables them to use known parts and subsystems and focus their creativity on limited sub-problems. Inheritance is allowed only single, not multiple like in C++, because used model contains object collection. Their use is in the field of modelling usually clearer than the use of multiple inheritances. In the field of technical systems ones the grouping of different functions into one indivisible system is not frequent
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