Skip to main content
Publications | Persons | Institutes | Projects
[ report an error in this record ]basket (0): add | show Print this page

SEABIRD: Scalable search for systematic biologically inspired design
Vandevenne, D.; Verhaegen, P.-A.; Dewulf, S.; Duflou, J.R. (2016). SEABIRD: Scalable search for systematic biologically inspired design. Artif. Intell. Eng. Des. Anal. Manuf. 30(1): 78-95. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0890060415000177
In: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing. Cambridge University Press: London. ISSN 0890-0604; e-ISSN 1469-1760, more
Peer reviewed article  

Available in  Authors 

Keyword
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Bioinspired Design; Biologically Inspired Design; Biomimicry; Creativityand Ideation

Authors  Top 
  • Vandevenne, D., more
  • Verhaegen, P.-A.
  • Dewulf, S.
  • Duflou, J.R.

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.

All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy Top | Authors