An Approach to Represent and Communicate Product or System Design Ideas at the Fuzzy-Front End of the Design Process

The primary challenge underscored and dealt with was how to represent the product’s or system’s use environment and processes and to communicate ideas and envisaged use contexts effectively at the fuzzy-front early stages of the design process. The work focused specifically on complex products or systems with physical, software and/or cyber...

New features imply new principles? Deriving design principles for mass customization of cyber-physical consumer durables

Dual-aspect model for failure forecasting in cyber-physical systems

Cyber physical systems (CPSs) are complex systems whose performance depends on the interactions between heterogeneous subsystems, the external environment, and the interrelation between the natural systems and its cyber-physical augmentations. Any fault that occurs during these diverse and interrelated interactions may cause failure or a...

Development of a framework for information acquisition and processing in cyber-physical systems

In the designing and modeling of CPSs, the information acquisition and processing processes are often application dependent and process oriented. Those information management frameworks are simple and effective for small scale systems. However, many functions developed are not reusable or cannot be directly re-used, when a large number of...

Reference scheme for deriving aspects and criteria for forecasting functional performance and cost implications of cyber-physical products

Evaluation of a ubiquitous learning system in a design engineering environment

Ubiquitous computing is computing power that is integrated in devices and environments in such a way that they offer optimal support to human daily life activities. For industrial design engineering students, applying ubiquitous technologies offer a great opportunity and challenge for innovating everyday products. To teach the students about...

Progress with situation assessment and risk prediction in advanced driver assistance systems: A survey

In the field of automotive safety, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are receiving growing attention. Effective ADAS requires awareness of the actual driving situation, a reliable assessment of the risks, and making rapid decisions on assisting actions. This paper reviews the current progress in these complementing subfields. The goal is...

Facilitating the development of design support software by abstract prototyping