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A Knowledge-Based Approach to Design Automation of Wire and Pipe Routing through Complex Aerospace Structures

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Improving Complex Systems Today

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The automation of engineering processes through Knowledge Based Engineering methods and technologies can provide significant savings in project scheduling and cost, increasing competitiveness in a changing aerospace market. In this paper we present outcomes of a research project aimed at improving engineering automation capability through development of a tool for automatic rule based path-finding for the complex engineering task of aircraft electrical harness and pipe routing.

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  1. School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, PO Box 71, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia

    Christian Van der Velden & Cees Bil

  2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Xinghuo Yu

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  1. Christian Van der Velden
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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass Ave 77, Cambridge, 02139, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel D. Frey

  2. Stanford University, Hamilton Ave 228, Palo Alto, 94301, California, USA

    Shuichi Fukuda

  3. University of Applied Science Trier, Schneidershof, Trier, 54293, Germany

    Georg Rock

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Van der Velden, C., Bil, C., Yu, X. (2011). A Knowledge-Based Approach to Design Automation of Wire and Pipe Routing through Complex Aerospace Structures. In: Frey, D., Fukuda, S., Rock, G. (eds) Improving Complex Systems Today. Advanced Concurrent Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-799-0_26

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