This 1-day course looks at how knowledge-based engineering techniques are revolutionizing automobile automatic transmission design. We first survey the necessary background concepts and techniques from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. We then take an in-depth look at the expert system for transmission design recently developed by the instructor for Ford Motor Co. This system has automatically produced thousands of patentable new designs and has re-discovered all applicable already-known designs.

BENEFITS of ATTENDING

• Learn the Artificial Intelligence / Expert System concepts behind Knowledge-Based automobile transmission design
• Obtain an in-depth understanding of the TransForm transmission design expert system recently developed by the instructor for Ford Motor Co.
• Learn how to automate the analysis and the synthesis of automobile transmissions
• See how to characterize and select optimal transmission designs
• Receive recently published articles on the TransForm expert system

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is for engineers or managers with a background in transmission design or manufacturing, who are interested in understanding the principles, tools and opportunities of applying knowledge-based engineering to the automatic design and analysis of automobile transmissions. The course requires no background in computer programming or Artificial Intelligence.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

BACKGROUND CONCEPTS from ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and EXPERT SYSTEMS

• Expert System Architecture
• Expert System Shells
• Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems
• Expert System Search Techniques
• Constraint-Based Reasoning Methods
• Tools for Constraint Based Reasoning: Prolog, Lisp, Mathematica

TRANSMISSION ANALYSIS

• Symbolic Mathematics for transmission analysis
• Symbolic and numerical computation of speeds, gear ratios, torques and other measures of transmission performance

THE TRANSFORM EXPERT SYSTEM for TRANSMISSION DESIGN

• Abstraction Levels in Transmission Design
• Architecture of the TransForm system
• Modeling Planetary Gearsets
• Programming Planetary Gearset animations using Mathematica
• Constraints in Transmission Design
• Graph Level Design
• Programming transmission generation using Prolog
• Rediscovering the Simpson, the Hydramatic 700 and the AXOD transmissions
• Topological Level Design
• Stick Diagram Level Design

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

• Optimization criteria for transmission design
• Optimization techniques
• Optimal transmission designs

INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Bernard Nadel, President, IntelliGineering Corp.

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