Principal Investigator John Ochsendorf
Co-investigator Caitlin Mueller
Project Website http://web.mit.edu/structuraldesign/images/mueller_smg.pdf
A tool for interactive structural design exploration using interactive evolutionary optimization.
We presents a novel interactive evolutionary framework for conceptual structural design. In contrast with tools for structural analysis, tools for structural design should guide the design process by suggesting structurally efficient options, while allowing for a diversity of design choice. The framework proposed here implements an interactive evolutionary algorithm to achieve this behaviour. Additionally, a cohesive and intuitive graphical user interface is introduced. Finally, a novel approach to approximate the design space, and thereby improve the speed of the algorithm, using non-parametric regression is discussed.