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Accession Number:
ADP007098
Title:
An Application of Neural Networks to Group Technology,
Corporate Author:
BOEING COMPUTER SERVICES CO SEATTLE WA
Report Date:
1992-01-01
Abstract:
Adaptive resonance theory ART neural networks are being developed for application to the industrial engineering problem of group technology -- the reuse of engineering designs. Two and three dimensional representations of engineering designs are input to ART-1 neural networks to produce groups or families of similar parts. These representations, in their basic form, amount to bit maps of the design, and can become very large when the design is represented in high resolution. We describe a neural database system under development. This system demonstrates the feasibility of training an ART-1 network to first cluster designs into families, and then to recall the family when presented a similar design. This application is of large practical value to industry, making it possible to avoid duplication of design efforts.
Supplementary Note:
This article is from 'Computing Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the Symposium on the Interface Critical Applications of Scientific Computing: Biology, Engineering, Medicine, Speech Held in Seattle, Washington on 21-24 April 1991,' AD-A252 938, p15-21.
Pages:
0007
File Size:
0.00MB
