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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Physical prototyping"”.
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Blending engineering modeling, industrial design, and physical prototyping in product design
… models, industrial design form models, and physical experimentation through prototypes are critical elements of successful product design. However, the three disciplines are disconnected and the direction of simulations, form models, and physical prototypes often diverge increasingly as …
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A cyber-physical prototyping and testing framework to enable the rapid development of unmanned aircraft
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Active prototyping : a computational framework for designing while making
… the wake of an increased accessibility of rapid prototyping tools in design education and practice, designers still face a series of challenges related to their use, one of them being the way in which they use these machines to actively explore and enhance their ideas. At the same time, the …
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An analysis of early stage prototypes using implementation, look and feel, and role
… interaction design, it has never been applied to physical prototypes on a large scale or to a progression of prototypes through the product development cycle. Ten physical prototypes from an MIT mechanical engineering senior capstone design course are evaluated according to the Houde and Hill …
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Bamboo Housing: Building with Composites for Dignity and Longevity
… in-country applied product and process design, physical prototyping of elements and joints, mechanical performance testing, a case study house design, and a comparative cost analysis with an alternative bamboo relief home. Results of these methods include a successful on-site fabrication process …
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Softwear: A Flexible Design Framework For Electronic Textile Systems
… systems to circumvent the need for the expensive physical prototyping process. This work discuss the effectiveness and appropriateness of the deployed event-driven hierarchical service model for application development. Additionally, this work explores the results of providing fault tolerance and …
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Playing is creating with PlayTIME: introducing and evaluating a tangible UI-based interactive scenario prototyping system
With traditional game prototyping activities, physical and digital game prototyping tasks are commonly separate, often requiring iteration between the two and different personnel to complete physical and digital tasks. In this thesis, we present PlayTIME: a Tangible Interactive Media Environment …
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Rapid prototyping in early stages of architectural design
This thesis shows how architects can use Rapid Prototyping and what the advantages and disadvantages are in different manipulations of the tool. Chapter two attempts to chart a road map of the rapid prototyping media. The data were drawn from a number of first hand experiments conducted by the …
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Model and design of small compact dielectric resonator and printed antennas for wireless communications applications. Model and simulation of dialectric resonator (DR) and printed antennas for wireless applications; investigations of dual band and wideband responses including antenna radiation performance and antenna design optimization using parametric studies
… through detailed simulation models, and physical prototyping. The first major design to be realized is a new broadband DRA operating from 1.15GHz to 6GHz, which has the potential to cover most of the existing mobile service bands. This antenna design employs a printed crescent shaped …
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Thermal properties of granular silica aerogel for high-performance insulation systems
… requirements of such a film. Additionally, physical prototyping was done to explore how the film would be incorporated into the existing panel design. The aerogel-based insulation panel being developed at MIT continues to show promise, though there are still plenty of opportunities remaining …
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Reduced order modelling and numerical optimisation approach to reliability analysis of microsystems and power modules
… and optimisation. The increasing cost of physical prototyping and extensive qualification testing for reliability assessment is making virtual qualification a very attractive alternative for the electronics industry. Given the availability of low cost processing technology and advanced …
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Computer-Generated Holography for Areal Additive Manufacture
… inability to ensure part quality without physical prototyping and destructive testing. This thesis sets out initial research into creating a radically new AM process that uses computer-generated holography (CGH) to produce complex light patterns in a single pulse. Projecting power to the …
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Designing a Localized Lower Body Negative Pressure Garment for Long-Duration Spaceflight
… properties and structural geometry. Iterative physical prototyping resulted in a sinusoidal silicone waveform design, selected for its mechanical stability and user comfort. The final prototype was then evaluated in three experimental phases: (1) mechanical testing using pressure-sensitive film …
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Designing for flexible vehicle interiors through discrete architectural methods: Reframing the role of the designer in an automated and computational age
… - into the automotive domain. Through physical prototyping and computational workflows, it demonstrates how these logics can support new forms of vehicle interior design that respond to evolving user needs, while reducing material waste and increasing utilisation rates. This research …
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A novel hydraulic energy-storage-and-return prosthetic ankle : design, modelling and simulation
… was assessed to provide justification for physical prototyping infuture work. Simulation results show that the new device almost perfectly replicates thetorque of an intact ankle during the working phases of the two cam-ram systems. Specifically,78% of the total eccentric work done by the …
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Cooperative mobile robot and manipulator system for autonomous manufacturing
… and TUM Visual-Inertial dataset. At last, a physical prototyping Co-MRMS, which is basically comprised of a fixed-base robotic manipulator and a mobile robot was developed. Cooperative behaviors and handling tasks to advance composite manufacturing serve as a case study. Abundant evaluations …
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A study in digital prototyping and multidisciplinary design team collaboration
… of the relative usefulness of digital prototyping tools employed in the development of the design projects, and (2) reviewed the design literature while focusing on areas related to a computer-aided product realization course curriculum, namely: reflective practice in design, design …