About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2022 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2022)
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Symposium
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2022 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2022)
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Presentation Title |
A Framework for Interactive Structural Design for AM |
Author(s) |
Sofia Valdez, Nicholas Rodriguez, Carolyn Seepersad |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Sofia Valdez |
Abstract Scope |
Additive manufacturing paired with topology optimization results in expansive design spaces that cannot be searched effectively by either human designers or computational algorithms alone. Our goal is to establish a machine learning based interactive design framework that combines the intuitive guidance of a designer and the generative ability of a computer. Specifically, the goal is to enable designers to guide the algorithm towards design features that are significant and desirable to them for reasons that are difficult to embed within the optimization itself (e.g. aesthetics) while maintaining satisfactory structural performance. The foundation of the framework consists of the latent representation of a library of designs generated by training a generative adversarial network (GAN) on a diverse set of topology optimized designs. The framework utilizes latent-based interactive functionalities that allow users to efficiently visualize, search, and alter designs within an expansive structural design space by manipulating their latent variable representations. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Definite: Post-meeting proceedings |