Building block method: a bottom-up modular synthesis methodology for distributed compliant mechanisms

A Bottom-up Approach to Distributed Workflow

Bottom-up synthetic biology: modular design for making artificial platelets.

Engineering artificial cells to mimic one or multiple fundamental cell biological functions is an emerging area of synthetic biology. Reconstituting functional modules from biological components in vitro is a challenging yet an important essence of bottom-up synthetic biology. Here we describe the concept of building artificial platelets using bottom-up synthetic biology and the four functional...

Designing Distributed Compliant Mechanisms with Characteristic Stiffness

A novel method is proposed in this paper to address the cutting-edge problem of topology optimization of distributed compliant mechanisms, which requires the design to possess both large output displacements and evenly distributed compliance simultaneously. The design is represented by a level-set model that precisely specifies the distinct material regions and their sharp interfaces as well as...

Flexible building blocks method for the optimal design of compliant mechanisms using piezoelectric material

This paper presents a new method to optimally design active compliant mechanisms. It is partly based on a flexible building blocks method called FlexIn, which had been developed at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). This method uses an evolutionary algorithm approach to optimize a truss-like structure, made of an assembly of passive and active piezoelectric building blocks from two spec...

Using Argumentation Schemes for Argument Extraction: A Bottom-Up Method

This paper surveys the state-of-the-art of argumentation schemes used as argument extraction techniques in cognitive informatics and uses examples to show how a series of connected problems needs to be solved to move these techniques forward to computational implementation. Some of the schemes considered are argument from expert opinion, practical reasoning, argument from negative consequences,...