A Framework for Flexible Systems and Its Implementation in Multiattribute Decision Making

Olewnik, Andrew; Brauen, Trevor; Ferguson, Scott; Lewis, Kemper

doi:10.1115/1.1701874

Cited by 72 publications

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“…Flexible systems on the other hand can be defined as systems designed to maintain a high level of performance through real-time changes in configuration when operating conditions or functional requirements change in a predictable or unpredictable way [44]. More intuitively: flexible systems make transitions over time [45], to meet new circumstances and cope with uncertainty, and thus imply an ease of modification and absence of irreversible or rigid components [46].…”

Section: Reconciling Robustness and Flexibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Loonen

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Cóstola

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Section: Reconciling Robustness and Flexibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Loonen

Trcka

Cóstola

et al. 2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

500

270

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“…The first achieves modality by allocating the FM of each mode to a specific subset of the entire product. This strategy has been implied in rich literature about reconfigurable products, in which modular design appeared to be the leverage of reconfigurability (Olewnik et al 2004;Siddiqi and de Weck 2008;Singh et al 2009). However, selecting different clusters of modules is not always sufficient to enable modality.…”

Section: Changeable Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among many case-and solution-oriented research works, modular design is assumed to be an indispensable measure to achieve reconfigurations (Olewnik et al 2004;Siddiqi and de Weck 2008;Singh et al 2009). …”

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confidence: 99%

Product architecture design of multi-modal products

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Incorporating multiple modes enables a product to change between different configurations, such as hybrid electric vehicles and washing machines. This paper investigates how multiple modes are constructed in modular product architecture-especially, how multi-modal modules are designed and used to construct overall product modality. The authors argue that product modality becomes viable by undertaking two strategies: temporal clustering, which activates and organizes different groups of modules in different modes, and modality propagation, which relies on modality of the product's subordinate modules. A solution that successfully incorporates modality enables the system to achieve functions with minimal system resources; however, it also introduces extra complexity to the design process. In the final section, the authors propose two techniques that promote multi-modal modules in design processes. This research work provokes the considerations of modality in product architecture. It claims modality is an important factor that leads to innovative design solutions.To emphasize the importance of modality, the authors present a case study of two pasta machines and compare the radical differences in their modular design solutions.

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“…This strategy includes building in capability to a system to handle new objectives and customer requirements [35,36,37,38]. This can also be considered a type of flexibility.…”

Section: Reconfigurablementioning

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Exploring Natural Strategies for Bio-Inspired Fault Adaptive Systems Design

Arroyo¹,

Huisman²,

Jensen³

2018

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Fault adaptive design seeks to find the principles and properties that enable robustness, reliability and resilience to implement those features into engineering products. In nature, this characteristic of adaptability is the fundamental trait that enables survival. Utilizing adaption strategy is a new area of research exploration for bio-inspired design. In this paper we introduce a tool for bio-inspired design for fault adaption. Further we discuss insights from using this tool in a undergraduate design experiment. The goal of the tool is to assist designers to develop fault adaptive behaviors in engineering systems using nature as inspiration. This tool is organized as a binary tree where branches that represent the specific details of how an organism achieves an adaptive behavior or characteristic.Results from an initial study indicate, for the specific challenge of designing fault adaption into a system, a strategy based method can provide designers with innovative analogies and help provide the details needed to bridge the gap between analogy and engineering implementation.

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A Framework for Flexible Systems and Its Implementation in Multiattribute Decision Making

Cited by 72 publications

References 28 publications

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Product architecture design of multi-modal products

Exploring Natural Strategies for Bio-Inspired Fault Adaptive Systems Design

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