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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2018, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (21): 138-155.doi: 10.3901/JME.2018.21.138

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Status and Progress of Product Shape Bionic Design

LUO Shijian1,2, ZHANG Yufei1,2, BIAN Ze1,2, CHAN Ping1,2   

  1. 1. Department of Industrial Design, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027;
    2. State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058
  • Received:2018-01-18 Revised:2018-09-10 Online:2018-11-05 Published:2018-11-05

Abstract: Innovation is the key to current and future development, and bionics is an important way to gathering inspiration. Bionic design is an important research approach in industrial design and a significant method of innovation. Based on the investigation of related literature, the concepts of product shape bionic design are proposed. The development of product shape bionic design in the fields of modeling, function, structure, texture is discussed. According to the existing cases of the product shape bionic design,two design processes -‘up-down’&‘bottom-up’ are proposed, and the main approaches are listed. The process and method of product shape bionic design is summarized. In terms of product shape bionic design research methods,the three level models named ontology level, behavioral level and value level are put forward. This article systematically discuss the research content, architecture and the key technologies in three aspect of bio-shape intrinsic extraction, product shape design and expression, bio-shape intrinsic and product shape fusion are discussed,and review existed problems of product shape bionic design. Finally, according to the integrated development of bionic design and information technology, some focused research issues on product shape bionic design are formulated and the future development trend is outlined.

Key words: bionic design, evolutionary design, gene, industrial design, product shape

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