Future applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) especially in military missions require the operation of UAVs with a high level of autonomy. Autonomous UAVs could be developed using agent technologies and therefore this paper investigates such an approach from an industrial perspective. Taking into account time, budget and available knowledge on the industrial side and need for UAV opera...

The paper this extended abstract describes presents the DEKLARE approach to modelling and representing Re-Design Knowledge in an industrial context. We furnish this description of DEKLARE with references to standard KA approaches such as CommonKADS [1] and to Sisyphus-II ́s VT [2] problem and solutions. We expect that a discussion of the DEKLARE approach during the workshop will be beneficial to...

A design pattern is a particular prose form of recording design information such that designs which have worked well in the past can be applied again in similar situations in the future. The availability of a collection of design patterns can help both the experienced and the novice designer recognize situations in which design reuse could or should occur. We have found that design patterns: 1)...

Subdivision surfaces are a powerful representation for surface modeling and design. While trimmed NURBS representation is widely applied in all CAID (Computer-aided Industrial Design) softwares, subdivision surfaces (SS) have been implemented only in character animation software like Maya and dedicated to entertainment and movies. In this paper a brief review in Subdivision Surfaces application...

The article presents the results of a research Project aimed at making a characterization of Cognitive Styles (CS) in the dimension of field sensibility-independence, of a sample of 126 Industrial Design students of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (JTLU) in Colombia, 90,47% of them come from the central Andean region. The guiding approach of our project is the Theory of Psychological Differen...

The importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is today far beyond any discussion in countries all over the world in European countries as well as in Asia and in USA, in Africa as well as in Latin America. To meet market demands in present and future global industrial world, manufacturing enterprises of any kind and any size must be flexible and agile enough to respond quickly to p...

Heat exchangers play an important role in power, the chemical industry, petroleum, food and many other industrial productions, while compact heat are more favored applications due to their high thermal efficiency small size. This paper summarizes research status of different types exchangers, especially results transfer pressure drop printed circuit so that researchers can have overall understa...