# Plan-Based Derivation of General Functional Structures in Product Design

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04600 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.04600/

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- First posted on arXiv 9 Feb 2023.

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- [Design Space Exploration as Quantified Satisfaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.02303/) (2019)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In product design, a decomposition of the overall product function into a set of smaller, interacting functions is usually considered a crucial first step for any computer-supported design tool. Here, we propose a new approach for the decomposition of functions especially suited for later solutions based on Artificial Intelligence. The presented approach defines the decomposition problem in terms of a planning problem--a well established field in Artificial Intelligence. For the planning problem, logic-based solvers can be used to find solutions that compute a useful function structure for the design process. Well-known function libraries from engineering are used as atomic planning steps. The algorithms are evaluated using two different application examples to ensure the transferability of a general function decomposition.