KPI-Conditioned Generative Design of Automotive Hood Inner Panels: A Two-Stage Retrieval-Generation Pipeline with Surrogate-Based Performance Estimation

📅 2026-08-23
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本文提出了一种两阶段管道,通过机器学习代理来解决汽车引擎盖内板的设计问题,使其满足性能要求。
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An inner hood panel must meet a deflection target, stay below a stress limit, and hit a mass target. Machine-learned surrogates have made the forward direction, geometry to performance, fast and routine. The inverse direction, producing geometry from a stated requirement, remains largely unaddressed for industrial parts whose design space is organized into discrete topology families rather than a continuous parameterization. This work presents a two-stage pipeline for that inverse problem. A reachability stage determines which topology families can satisfy a given requirement vector. A conditional variational autoencoder then generates point-cloud geometry within a selected family, and a neural-operator surrogate estimates the performance of each candidate. The pipeline is built entirely from public data and freely available compute, and is deployed as an interactive tool. The pipeline works, with qualifications that are reported as primary findings rather than caveats. The surrogate is accurate in aggregate, but its error is comparable to the performance differences it is asked to discriminate, which bounds what can be claimed for any individual generated design. That ratio of surrogate error to within-class signal is argued to be the quantity that determines whether a pipeline of this kind can work at all.
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Generative Design
Automotive Hood Panels
Performance Estimation
Topology Families
Surrogate Models
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two-stage pipeline
conditional variational autoencoder
neural-operator surrogate
reachability analysis
topology families
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Sudeep Chavare
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