Rule-based Lightweight Structure Design

This paper presents a rule-based computer aided design framework for assembling complex internal structure. It defines each voxel with its neighborhood as an intelligent agent, which make it possible to convert the structural assembly problem into an optimization problem of a multi-agent system. We use this method in the lightweight model design. Simple defeasible rules are used to build up the agents behaviors, which bind the external requirements with the internal structures. The target model is generated by the emergence of a large number of agents, which provided an implementation mechanism for the function-oriented design.