Prof. Offer Shai提出了基于数学体系构建的新设计理论和方法：infused Design，并将其应用于工程设计。三个报告系统阐述多学科组合方法求解工程设计问题以及其应用成果。主要成果包括一种新型的面力、系统基因以及基因组。

Prof. Shai received a Ph.D. (Summa Cum Laude) degree in mechanical engineering from Ben Gurion University. Before, during and after his studies he has worked on fertilizing theoretical ideas that have implications for practical applications. Before university, he studied practical mechanical engineering in Ort and during his academic studies he spent almost three years taking courses in computer science at Ben Gurion University and the Weizmann Institute. The strong mathematical background he established enabled him to employ advanced mathematical techniques in engineering and also to work both with mathematicians and researchers in engineering. Shai received the A.T. Yang Memorial Award twice (2005 and 2010) in Theoretical Kinematics in the ASME conference. In addition, he received an outstanding award for best paper together with Reich, Hatchuel and Subrahmanian in ICED’09.

The first talk will be:

Multidisciplinary combinatorial approach in design and analysis.

It is recommended to read the following papers before the talk:

Shai O., “The Multidisciplinary Combinatorial Approach and its Applications in Engineering”, AIEDAM – AI for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp.109-144, April, 2001.

Shai O., “The Duality Relation between Mechanisms and Trusses”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 343-369, March, 2001.

Shai O. and Reich Y., “Infused Design: I Theory", Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 93-107, 2004. 

Shai O., Reich Y. and Rubin D., "Creative Conceptual Design: Extending the Scope by Infused Design", Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 117-135, 2009.

The second talk will be on :

The Outcomes and Practical Applications of the Multidisciplinary Combinatorial Approach (MCA)

In this talk we will introduce several results derived from MCA. Due to the duality of mechanisms and trusses a new type of force was revealed, called face force. This type of force has unique physical properties that are useful in many practical applications, such as: characterizing of singularity of robots and more. One of the main results is revealing topological building blocks of almost all mechanical and biological systems, also called the system genes. Once we know to derive all of them we can have a method for synthesis the topological systems.

Other topics that will be mentioned in this talk are: Knowledge Engineering Genome, a multidisciplinary perspective on tensegrity systems and more.

It is recommended to read the following papers before the talk:

Shai O., “Utilization of the Dualism between Determinate Trusses and Mechanisms”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 1307-1323, November, 2002.

Shai O. and Polansky I., "Finding Dead-Point Positions of Planar Pin-Connected Linkages through Graph Theoretical Duality Principle", Journal of Mechanical Design, Spatial Mechanisms and Robot Manipulators, Trans. ASME, Vol. 128, No. 3, pp. 599-609, May, 2006.

Servatius B., Shai O. and Whiteley W., "Combinatorial Characterization of the Assur Graphs from Engineering", European Journal of Combinatorics, Vol. 31, No. 4, May, pp. 1091-1104, 2010.

Shai O., “Topological Synthesis of All 2D Mechanisms through Assur Graphs”, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, August 15-18, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2010. A.T. Yang Memorial Award in Theoretical Kinematics.

 

Sponsor: this seminar is related to the International Collaboration Innovation Team Project of Tsinghua University (清华大学重点学科高水平国际合作创新团队支持项目)

Contact:  Hou Yuemin, Tel: 62773470