ARCADES — Algebraic Representations in Computer-Aided Design for complEx Shapes

Results in brief

Algebraic Representations in Computer-Aided Design for complEx Shapes

ARCADES supported Computer-Aided Design (CAD) industry by exploiting cutting-edge research in mathematics and algorithm design. Geometry is now a critical tool in a large number of key applications in which CAD strives to address crucial societal and market needs. The challenge taken up by ARCADES was to supply the CAD industry with recent mathematical breakthroughs so as to contribute to building the next generation of CAD software. ARCADES put an emphasis in training the next generation of applied mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers, who became equipped with a double career advantage: excellent research training, and exposure to industrial research environments through a nexus of secondments among Universities, Research & Innovation Centers, and industrial teams. Our fellows have been endowed with an international culture and developed a strong network among themselves and with the other stakeholders of the project, thanks to the regular Network events. The scientific results obtained by the ESRs of the Network are very promising. The CAD representation of complex shapes is expected to evolve considerably in the future as additive manufacturing supplants traditional (subtractive) manufacturing for many applications. This will also be driven by the trend towards increasingly integrated design as one sees in many applications (e.g. single surface ship hulls instead of a confederation of separate surfaces). This leads in turn to increased demand for high quality software to handle the additional complexity of the complex geometries. The technology developed in ARCADES may well prove to be disruptive to the entire CAD industry because of the advances being made in mathematical modelling and algorithm design. The innovations offered promise to be valuable to industry.

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Project objective

ARCADES aims at disrupting the traditional paradigm in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) by exploiting cutting-edge research in mathematics and algorithm design. Geometry is now a critical tool in a large number of key applications; somewhat surprisingly, however, several approaches of the CAD industry are outdated, and 3D geometry processing is becoming increasingly the weak link. This is alarming in sectors where CAD faces new challenges arising from fast point acquisition, big data, and mobile computing, but also in robotics, simulation, animation, fabrication and manufacturing where CAD strives to address crucial societal and market needs. The challenge taken up by ARCADES is to invert the trend of CAD industry lagging behind mathematical breakthroughs and to build the next generation of CAD software based on strong foundations from algebraic geometry, differential geometry, scientific computing, and algorithm design. Our game-changing methods lead to real-time modelers for architectural geometry and visualisation, to isogeometric and design-through-analysis software for shape optimisation, and marine design & hydrodynamics, and to tools for motion design, robot kinematics, path planning, and control of machining tools. One of the Network SMEs estimates that the innovative impact of ARCADES may enable them to get ahead of competition for up to 2 years, thus benefiting about 40% of their customers. The participants span a multidisciplinary and multisectoral spectrum for realising our vision, all being international leaders at various stages of the pipeline. They form an outstanding ecosystem for training the next generation of applied mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers for achieving our scientific breakthroughs, and who are equipped with a double career advantage: excellent research training, and exposure to industrial research environments through a nexus of secondments among Universities, Research and Innovation Centers, and industrial teams.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS · MAROUSSICoordinatorGreece
Evolute GmbH · PerchtoldsdorfAustria
HELLENIC REGISTER OF SHIPPING S.A. · KERATSINI / PIREASGreece
HUE · OsloNorway
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE · Le Chesnay CedexFrance
INTERNATIONAL TECHNEGROUP LIMITED · Swavesey CambridgeUnited Kingdom
RISC SOFTWARE GMBH · HAGENBERGAustria
SINTEF AS · TrondheimNorway
STIFTELSEN SINTEF · TrondheimNorway
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · WienAustria
TOPSOLID · EvryFrance
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA · BarcelonaSpain
UNIVERSITAT LINZ · LinzAustria
UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GlasgowUnited Kingdom

ARCADES · Algebraic Representations in Computer-Aided Design for complEx Shapes

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Algebraic Representations in Computer-Aided Design for complEx Shapes

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