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SEABIRD: Scalable search for systematic biologically inspired design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2015

Dennis Vandevenne ,
Paul-Armand Verhaegen ,
Simon Dewulf  and
Joost R. Duflou
Dennis Vandevenne*
Affiliation:
Centre for Industrial Management, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuve, Celestijnenlaan, Leuven, Belgium
Paul-Armand Verhaegen
Affiliation:
Centre for Industrial Management, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuve, Celestijnenlaan, Leuven, Belgium
Simon Dewulf
Affiliation:
AULIVE NV, Ieper, Belgium
Joost R. Duflou
Affiliation:
Centre for Industrial Management, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuve, Celestijnenlaan, Leuven, Belgium
*
Reprint requests to: Dennis Vandevenne, Centre for Industrial Management, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuve, Celestijnenlaan 300A, 3001 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail: dennis.vandevenne@kuleuven.be
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Abstract

As more and more people are increasingly turning to nature for design inspiration, tools and methodologies are developed to support the systematic bioideation process. State-of-the-art approaches struggle with expanding their knowledge bases because of interactive work required by humans per biological strategy. As an answer to this persistent challenge, a scalable search for systematic biologically inspired design (SEABIRD) system is proposed. This system leverages experience from the product aspects in design by analogy tool that identifies candidate products for between-domain design by analogy. SEABIRD is based on two conceptual representations, product and organism aspects, extracted from, respectively, a patent and a biological database, that enable leveraging the ever growing body of natural-language biological texts in the systematic bioinspired design process by eliminating interactive work by humans during corpus expansion. SEABIRD's search is illustrated and validated with three well-known biologically inspired design cases.

Keywords

Bioinspired DesignBiologically Inspired DesignBiomimicryCreativity and Ideation
Type
Regular Articles
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AI EDAM , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 78 - 95
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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