Pedestrian Hood Generation & Optimization Using Knowledge-Based Engineering

Knowledge-based Engineering (KBE) has been used in industry in for some time. Companies such as Jaguar initially used KBE to automate well-understood, but repetitive, man-intensive engineering issues at the early phases of a programme. These were / are mainly based around geometrical problems (e.g. ergonomic design). Airbus (UK) in particular over the last few years has taken this to a new level by using ICAD as a method of not only generating geometry, but interacting with other existing programmes and creating a method of ‘glueware’ that takes initial input data, and runs through a design and analysis sequence that would normally take human processing much longer to achieve. The next logical step is to control the overall process using a piece of optimization software