Application of the CBR Method for Adding the Design Process of Module Manipulators

Abstract

The paper presents the method basing on engineers knowledge and experience for aiding the process of designing module manipulators. The method, proposed by the authors, is based on the CBR method (Case Based Reasoning). CBR is a method of problem solving that bases on the searching for analogies (similarities) between a currently solved design task, and earlier cases, that adequately described, are stored in a computer memory. The paper presents the algorithm and formalized description of the developed method. It has been also presented its scope, and method of functioning are illustrated on the example of the designing module manipulators.