Automated synthesis of electromechanical design configurations from empirical analysis of function to form mapping

Kurtoglu, Tolga; Campbell, Matthew I.

doi:10.1080/09544820701546165

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“…Structure-behaviourfunction modelling language has been developed for the representation of complex engineering systems using teleological modelling (Goel, Rugaber, and Vattam 2009). One of the important recent studies is the development of a computational methodology as a formal language for generating design configurations or forms from a functional description based on an empirical analysis of consumer products (Kurtoglu and Campbell 2009). Also, agent technology is used to develop a framework for guiding the conceptual design of mechanical products (Cao et al 2008;Cao and Fu 2011).…”

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Behavioural representation and simulation of design concepts for systematic conceptual design of mechatronic systems using Petri Nets

Araz

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2013

International Journal of Production Research

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The systematic representation of design concepts is an important requirement for computational support during the conceptual design stage within the process of product development. Behavioural simulation of design concepts is used as a systematic representation framework, and behavioural representation is based on modelling and simulating the behaviour of a design artefact at the conceptual level to perform an overall function, leading to behaviour-based conceptual design. The behaviour-based conceptual design approach is critical for mechatronic systems since they require synergistic integration starting from the initial conceptual design phase. The present study is focused on behavioural representation and simulation of design concepts via discrete event system specification formalism and Petri Nets so as to contribute to systematic conceptual design in mechatronic systems. The paper introduces a representation framework for the behaviour-based conceptual design of mechatronic systems and its implementation on five selected case studies, among laboratory-level educational robots. In addition to Petri Net modelling and computer simulations, the implementation also includes physical simulations of the intended operational behaviours for educational robots on a distributed physical structure called the 'desktop design model'. In this paper, implementation on one of these case studies, namely the 'frog robot', is presented in detail.

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Behavioural representation and simulation of design concepts for systematic conceptual design of mechatronic systems using Petri Nets

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2013

International Journal of Production Research

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“…They vary from numerical optimization approaches of partial design problems for single products (Ziv-Av and Reich, 2005), through heuristics for module optimization in product families (Jiao et al, 2008), to morphological analysis methods for incremental design improvements (Kurtoglu and Campbell, 2009). Based on Steward's work (Steward, 1981), a number of additional (computational) matrix-based techniques have been proposed over the years (Eppinger and Browning, 2012).…”

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Formal computer-aided product family architecture design for mass customization

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Clarkson

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Computers in Industry

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With product customization companies aim at creating higher customer value and stronger economic benefits. The profitability of the offered variety relies on the quality of the developed product family architectures and their consistent implementation in configuration systems. Yet existing methods are informal, providing limited support for domain experts to communicate, synthesize and document architectures effectively. In single product design explicit visual models such as design structure matrices and node-link diagrams have been used in combination with structural analysis methods to overcome the limitation of the informal approach. Drawing on thereto established best practises, this paper evaluates and extends the relevant methods and modelling techniques, to create a consistent and formal approach for the design and customization of entire product families. To validate it's applicability, the approach is tested on a case study at a manufacturing company offering bespoke industrial applications. A generic modelling method termed the integrated design model (IDM) is developed and complemented with a computational structural analysis method, to assist domain experts in their daily work. When combined with a configuration system, the presented IDM tool automates the documentation and formalizes the synthesis of architectures, thereby making any decision about a preferred solution explicit and transparent.

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“…Alternatively, there are formalized processes to obtain feasible architectures from the requirements. By using a mapping between functions and components, a list of functional requirements can automatically be converted into feasible architectures [4]. Another formalized process, is the functionalbehaviour-state method that decomposes a function into subfunctions until these can be linked to physical properties [5].…”

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Architecture-based design for multi-body simulation of complex systems

Allegaert

Lemmens

Rocca

2017

2017 IEEE International Systems Engineering Symposium (ISSE)

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Abstract-As the complexity of high-tech systems continuously increases, engineers look for possibilities to reduce time and cost of the development of these systems. Architecturebased design enables a front-loaded design process with knowledge reuse. By enabling the automatic synthesis of simulation models, different configurations of an architecture can be realized and simulated efficiently. Current practices are found in the automotive and aerospace industry where architecturebased design is used for the automatic synthesis of multi-physics simulation models. In this way, different architecture options and simulation model variations can be efficiently investigated early in the development process. Multi-body simulations are also frequently used in the conceptual design of complex mechatronic systems. However a suitable methodology to synthesize their simulation models is lacking. This paper demonstrates that an architecture-based design approach can be used for the automatic synthesis of multi-body simulation models and a methodology is proposed to efficiently model and synthesize them. However, due to the geometric constraints, geometrical dependencies have been introduced between the sub-systems which requires a correct synthesis sequence that needs to be determined by solving a topological sorting problem. Subsequently, the methodology was evaluated with the conceptual design of an aircraft trailing-edge high-lift system. It was found that, concerning the time efficiency of the proposed approach, a trade-off needs to be made between the time that is saved by the automatic synthesis of simulation models and the time it takes to create the architectures and compatible subsystem models. Finally, the research suggests that an architecture-based design approach can be used for a diverse set of design problems involving different domain specific engineering tools. Therefore, the applicability is not limited to aerospace industry and it can as well bring advantages to other industries where the investigation of conceptual designs is an important but time-intensive activity.

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Automated synthesis of electromechanical design configurations from empirical analysis of function to form mapping

Cited by 93 publications

References 26 publications

Behavioural representation and simulation of design concepts for systematic conceptual design of mechatronic systems using Petri Nets

Behavioural representation and simulation of design concepts for systematic conceptual design of mechatronic systems using Petri Nets

Formal computer-aided product family architecture design for mass customization

Architecture-based design for multi-body simulation of complex systems

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