Knowledge based engineering system for structural optical design

The design of optical systems (OS) is a sequential process including stages of the analysis of a technical specification, structural synthesis, parametric optimization etc. Currently there exists a lot of computer-aided design systems (CAD) that can effectively solve the problem of an optical scheme optimization (also known as parametric synthesis), calculating the exact parameters of an optical system. Some examples of such system are “CODE V”, “OSLO”, “SYNOPSYS” and others. Some of them provide user with decision support using a database of stock lenses from various vendors, what limits them to the number of existing solutions. But for successful calculation of an optical system’s parameters of the initial optical scheme, or "starting point" for the whole design process must be specified correctly. Until now this problem is solved by an optical designer relying on his or her experience. Aim