Design Space Exploration and Explanation via Conditional Variational Autoencoders in Meta-model-based Conceptual Design of Pedestrian Bridges
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| author | Balmer, Vera M. Kuhn, Sophia V. Bischof, Rafael Salamanca, Luis Kaufmann, Walter Perez-Cruz, Fernando Kraus, Michael A. |
| author_facet | Balmer, Vera M. Kuhn, Sophia V. Bischof, Rafael Salamanca, Luis Kaufmann, Walter Perez-Cruz, Fernando Kraus, Michael A. |
| contents | For conceptual design, engineers rely on conventional iterative (often manual) techniques. Emerging parametric models facilitate design space exploration based on quantifiable performance metrics, yet remain time-consuming and computationally expensive. Pure optimisation methods, however, ignore qualitative aspects (e.g. aesthetics or construction methods). This paper provides a performance-driven design exploration framework to augment the human designer through a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE), which serves as forward performance predictor for given design features as well as an inverse design feature predictor conditioned on a set of performance requests. The CVAE is trained on 18'000 synthetically generated instances of a pedestrian bridge in Switzerland. Sensitivity analysis is employed for explainability and informing designers about (i) relations of the model between features and/or performances and (ii) structural improvements under user-defined objectives. A case study proved our framework's potential to serve as a future co-pilot for conceptual design studies of pedestrian bridges and beyond. |
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| spellingShingle | Design Space Exploration and Explanation via Conditional Variational Autoencoders in Meta-model-based Conceptual Design of Pedestrian Bridges Balmer, Vera M. Kuhn, Sophia V. Bischof, Rafael Salamanca, Luis Kaufmann, Walter Perez-Cruz, Fernando Kraus, Michael A. Machine Learning For conceptual design, engineers rely on conventional iterative (often manual) techniques. Emerging parametric models facilitate design space exploration based on quantifiable performance metrics, yet remain time-consuming and computationally expensive. Pure optimisation methods, however, ignore qualitative aspects (e.g. aesthetics or construction methods). This paper provides a performance-driven design exploration framework to augment the human designer through a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE), which serves as forward performance predictor for given design features as well as an inverse design feature predictor conditioned on a set of performance requests. The CVAE is trained on 18'000 synthetically generated instances of a pedestrian bridge in Switzerland. Sensitivity analysis is employed for explainability and informing designers about (i) relations of the model between features and/or performances and (ii) structural improvements under user-defined objectives. A case study proved our framework's potential to serve as a future co-pilot for conceptual design studies of pedestrian bridges and beyond. |
| title | Design Space Exploration and Explanation via Conditional Variational Autoencoders in Meta-model-based Conceptual Design of Pedestrian Bridges |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16406 |