DESIGN OF INTELLIGENT RESILIENT STRUCTURES VIA AUTOMATIC PLACEMENT OF SENSOR AND SMART ACTUATORS

    公开(公告)号:US20240273245A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18168011

    申请日:2023-02-13

    IPC分类号: G06F30/10

    CPC分类号: G06F30/10 G06F2119/02

    摘要: An innovative method to automatically place sensors and stimuli-sensitive active actuators to neutralize the effects of structural faults and design a smart fault-resilient system is described. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed framework is the first systematic integration of thermally activated shape memory polymer actuators with a sensor distribution framework targeted to bring a damaged structural system to its native state. The framework does not explicitly model the material constitutive model and hence can be applied to linear and nonlinear material behaviors. The approach enables the design of resilient smart structures that can be additively manufactured. The framework computes a matrix of relative importance for different sensor positions and uses that to optimally place actuators to reconfigure the system in presence of faults.

    PHYSICS-AWARE AUTOMATIC SPATIAL PLANNING FOR SUBTRACTIVE AND HYBRID MANUFACTURING

    公开(公告)号:US20230071648A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-09

    申请号:US17445639

    申请日:2021-08-23

    IPC分类号: G05B19/4099

    摘要: A method includes receiving a representation of a near-net shape including a 3D part and a support volume. The method also includes calculating a measure of inaccessibility of the support volume by at least one subtractive tool assembly. The method also includes calculating a measure of change in a physical quantity of interest with respect to a change in the near-net shape. The method also includes constructing a physics-aware inaccessibility measure based at least partially upon the measure of inaccessibility, the measure of change, or both. The method also includes creating a plan to remove at least a portion of the support volume using the at least one subtractive tool assembly based at least partially upon the physics-aware inaccessibility measure.

    NONDESTRUCTIVE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AND/OR CHARACTERIZING DAMAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20240053303A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US17819515

    申请日:2022-08-12

    发明人: Morad BEHANDISH

    IPC分类号: G01N29/44 G01N29/04

    摘要: A nondestructive method for detecting damage in parts and/or characterizing effective material properties may include: exposing a material to one or more nondestructive stimuli; measuring a response of the material to the stimuli; selecting at least one of a specific length scale or a specific time scale; and analyzing the measurement of the response with a scale-aware single- or multi-physics model to identify anomalies in the measurements as compared to an expected response of the material to the stimuli, wherein the scale-aware single- or multi-physics model is based on the at least one of the specific length scale or the specific time scale.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES

    公开(公告)号:US20230281490A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-07

    申请号:US17684100

    申请日:2022-03-01

    IPC分类号: G06N5/04

    CPC分类号: G06N5/041

    摘要: Methods and systems useful for artificial intelligence-assisted generation of viable hypotheses may have (1) an ability to rapidly enumerate and test a diverse set of mathematically sound and parsimonious physical hypotheses, starting from a few basic assumptions on the embedding spacetime topology; (2) a distinction between non-negotiable mathematical truism (e.g., conservation laws or symmetries), that are directly implied by properties of spacetime, and phenomenological relations (e.g., constitutive laws), whose characterization relies indisputably on empirical observation, justifying targeted use of data-driven methods (e.g., machine learning (ML) or polynomial regression); and (3) a “simple-first” strategy (following Occam’s razor) to search for new hypotheses by incrementally introducing latent variables that are expected to exist based on topological foundations of physics.

    DESIGN OF ACTIVE RESILIENT STRUCTURES
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240265157A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-08

    申请号:US18162130

    申请日:2023-01-31

    IPC分类号: G06F30/13 G06F30/20

    摘要: A systematic framework to design active resilient structures that simultaneously optimizes the characteristics of the system to yield an optimal solution in terms of robustness to external disturbance, uncertainty in structural properties, and structural faults. The proposed approach will yield a preferred or optimal solution as opposed to designing individual components of the complete system. The framework provides the preferred or optimal location and precision of heterogeneous sensors and stimuli-sensitive active actuators and the control law guiding these active actuators to control the resilient structure. The framework provides a systematic approach to designing active resilient structures by choosing the location of smart actuators/sensors to mitigate the unwanted effects of uncertain structural properties. The framework is the first systematic integration of thermally activated shape memory polymer actuators and their guiding law with a sensor distribution framework targeted to bring a damaged/disturbed structural system to its native state.