The 2005 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems
(CTS 2005)

May 15-19, 2005
Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

In cooperation with the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society

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DEMO II

 

 

Pegasus Gateway:  Cyberspace Collaboration

 

 

Kyoung-Yun Kim, Yan Wang, Bart O. Nnaji, and David Manley

US NSF I/UCRC for e-Design
University of Pittsburgh

USA

 

 

 

ABSTRACT

The National Science Foundation (NSF) established an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for e-Design at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Central Florida.  The Center serves as a national center of excellence in information technology (IT)-enabled design and realization of discrete manufactured products.  It is currently supported by a growing number of US industry partners and US government agencies including GEAE, Ford Motor Co., Alcoa, Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed Martin, PTC, ANSYS, Raytheon, Respironics, BAE Systems, IBM, Engineous Software, VirtualE3D, and the federal agencies, including DoD, NIST, and NASA.  Two additional universities, Carnegie Mellon University and Virginia Tech, will join the Center.  Through four research thrusts, (1) Enabling Information Infrastructure, (2) Life-cycle, Collaborative, and Multidisciplinary Design, (3) Conceptual Design Tools and Design Process Models, and (4) Virtual Prototyping and Simulation, more than 30 faculty members along with their graduate students are conducting research activities to realize the innovative e-design paradigm. 

 

This demonstration presents the Pegasus gateway that enables a collaborative service-oriented design paradigm with capability for interoperability, trust-support infrastructure, systems engineering approach to design, integrated product realization through optimization, transparency, conflict resolution & negotiation, pro-activeness of analysis, virtual simulation & prototyping, lean product data management, multidisciplinary constraints & preferences capturing, and instant distributed access & visualization.  As a case scenario, this demonstration shows how the Pegasus gateway can be efficiently employed in collaboration for assembly design.  The Pegasus Gateway and service-oriented collaboration architecture realizes an environment in which joining knowledge is captured early in the assembly design process and is propagated seamlessly and transparently to downstream activities including virtual assembly analysis and assembly design decision-making. 

 

 

 

PRESENTER

Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim, US NSF I/UCRC for e-Design, University of Pittsburgh, USA. 

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim is currently a Research Assistant Professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering and a Research Specialist at the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for e-Design, University of Pittsburgh. He is leading the Virtual Prototyping and Simulation research group and is a member of IIE, ASME, SME, and AWS. He has published technical articles in leading academic journals including CAD, International Journal of Production Research, and IIE Transactions. Dr. Kim has worked on research projects on virtual prototyping and simulation, distributed information systems, and telerehabilitation funded by NIDRR of the Department of Education and Alcoa. His education degrees include a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Chonbuk National University, South Korea; and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, USA. His research interests include design and manufacturing engineering, Internet-based collaborative design, virtual prototyping and simulation, and assembly modeling.