25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-9.3.4

A 3D KNOWLEDGE-BASED ROUTER FOR WIRING IN AEROSPACE VEHICLES

C. Van der Velden, C. Bil, X. Yu, A. Smith*
RMIT, Australia; *GKN Aerospace Engineering Services Pty Ltd, Australia

Keywords: Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE), intelligent algorithms, routing, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Finite Element Modelling (FEM), voxels

This paper describes development of a KBE system for three-dimensional routing in aerospace vehicles with applications including electrical wiring and hydraulic/pneumatic piping design. The software reads three-dimensional CAD geometry with source and target terminals and outputs wire/pipe geometry and other information required to describe the system path.

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