Crowd-driven Ecosystem for Evolutionary Design
Abstract
GE Global Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology jointly developed a crowdsourcing platform to support DARPA s vehicleforge.mil program to revolutionize modern-day design and manufacturing. Our vision is to build a crowd-driven ecosystem for evolutionary design (CEED). It will connect data, design tools and simulations in a collaborative environment to accelerate the design of highly complex industrial systems. Such an environment allows designers to team up to develop projects concurrently. Developers from different spaces will be able to form design communities and create a common project space. This space will allow them to manage processes as a team and track changes and updates on their project. Furthermore, the CEED platform provides a marketplace where contributors can choose to expose their ideas to the public either as open source or as IP protected services. The exposed design models, or models available for review in this open community, will experience market pressures that ultimately allow for the best designs to emerge. The CEED platform also embeds social media connections to maximize crowd engagement.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 28, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA565255
Entities
People
- Amine Chigani
- Benjamin Beckmann
- David R. Wallace
- Qing Cao
- Thomas Citriniti
Organizations
- General Electric