Most AI research into design has been based on or directed to the electrical circuit domain. This paper presents a mechanical engineer's view. Design of mechanical parts and products differs from design of electrical circuits in several fundamental ways: materials selection, sensitivity to manufacturing issues, non-modularity, high coupling of form and function, and especially the role of 3-D g...

In this paper artificial neural networks and support vector machines are used to reduce the amount of vibration data that is required to estimate the Time Domain Average of a gear vibration signal. Two models for estimating the time domain average of a gear vibration signal are proposed. The models are tested on data from an accelerated gear life test rig. Experimental results indicate that the...

The early promise of the impact of machine intelligence did not involve the partitioning of the nascent field of Artificial Intelligence. The founders of AI envisioned the notion of embedded intelligence as being conjoined between perception, reasoning and actuation. Yet over the years the fields of AI and Robotics drifted apart. Practitioners of AI focused on problems and algorithms abstracted...

Our desire and fascination with intelligent machines dates back to the antiquity’s mythical automaton Talos, Aristotle’s mode of mechanical thought (syllogism) and Heron of Alexandria’s mechanical machines and automata. However, the quest for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is troubled with repeated failures of strategies and approaches throughout the history. This decade has seen a shift...

This study offers a complete analysis of the use deep learning or machine learning, as well precise recommendations on how these methods could be used in creation components and nodes. The examples this thesis are intended to identify areas mechanical design optimization where technique widely applied future, benefiting society advancing current state modern engineering. review begins with disc...

Michael R. Benjamin Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island 02841, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 e-mail: [email protected] Henrik Schmidt Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02...

One major way in which Amazon Mechanical Turk has been used is in the human labeling (or coding) of data, such as the relevance of search results or quality of Wikipedia articles. Recently, we used Amazon Mechanical Turk for classifying or labeling Twitter updates as questions or not. We present the design of our study and the steps that we took to address the challenges we faced in using Mecha...