Title: Knowledge system for early phase aesthetic concept generation in industrial design

Authors: Sitaram Soni; Puneet Tandon; Pritee Khanna

Addresses: School of Engineering and Research, ITM University, Chhattisgarh, India ' PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jabalpur, India ' PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jabalpur, India

Abstract: The early phase of the aesthetic concept generation involves the tacit knowledge of the experts. There is general lack of formal models to capture and use this knowledge, as it is difficult to externalise, capture, express and reuse. This paper contributes to the development of formal models and an application framework for the knowledge involved in early phase aesthetic concept generation of industrial products. The models are based on four axioms. These axioms are used to develop two models; aesthetic design complex (ADC) and action grammar. These models are used to develop a design learning and generation framework. Soft computing techniques are used to capture, reuse and externalise the tacit aesthetic design knowledge. The tacit design is expressed as heuristics, which are validated by human-based evaluation. The developed prototype framework shows that such a computational support is possible to aesthetic design process, practice and education.

Keywords: design for aesthetics; knowledge-based system; cognitive process; action grammar; concept generation; early phase design; industrial design; expert systems; product design; artificial intelligence; artificial neural network; genetic algorithms; principal component analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISDC.2018.092552

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Design and Computing, 2018 Vol.2 No.1, pp.45 - 75

Accepted: 09 Jan 2018
Published online: 24 Jun 2018 *