In the engineering design process, it is important to know the engineering trade-offs achievable under various design preferences and strategies. In this paper, a family of engineering design trade-offs are evolved from an automatic design synthesis methodology based on evolutionary computation. The complete Pareto optima frontier can be evolved by a consideration of fitness function that aggregates the weighted fuzzy design preferences under different trade-off strategies. An initial case study concerned with the configuration of a collective sensory system is presented and discussed, along with preliminary results obtained from simulations under a specific scenario. The results indicate that the approach can be useful for designers to solve complex engineering problems.
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ASME 2003 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 2–6, 2003
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-3701-7
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Evolving Engineering Design Trade-Offs
Erik K. Antonsson,
Erik K. Antonsson
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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Yizhen Zhang,
Yizhen Zhang
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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Alcherio Martinoli
Alcherio Martinoli
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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Erik K. Antonsson
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Yizhen Zhang
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Alcherio Martinoli
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Paper No:
DETC2003/DTM-48676, pp. 819-827; 9 pages
Published Online:
June 23, 2008
Citation
Antonsson, EK, Zhang, Y, & Martinoli, A. "Evolving Engineering Design Trade-Offs." Proceedings of the ASME 2003 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 3b: 15th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology. Chicago, Illinois, USA. September 2–6, 2003. pp. 819-827. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2003/DTM-48676
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