Vehicle designers, like all trained product designers, use their skill and intuition to bring potential designs to reality. The designers manipulate current forms and create new forms to differentiate their product from existing products. The understanding of vehicle differentiations is often based upon a general understanding of the vehicle form and established relationships between vehicle characteristics. Vehicle characteristics that are physically close to each other often have an established relationship, e.g. the hood and front windshield are related through the cowl. Product forms with multiple features, like automobiles, have traditionally accepted feature definitions and relationships between those features. These relationships drive how the product is created by focusing on expected, and accepted, feature development to push the form outside the traditional bounds. This paper uses principal component analysis to determine the fundamental characteristics within vehicle classes. The results of this analysis can then be considered by product designers to create new designs based upon the derived shape relationships. These new designs will be novel due to the nontraditional grouping of characteristics.
Identifying product shape relationships using principal component analysis
Research in Engineering Design ; 18 , 4 ; 163-180
2008
18 Seiten, 20 Bilder, 10 Tabellen, 9 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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