Efficient co-design of composite smart structures (antennas and mechanical structures) using a novel hybrid optimization technique

You, Chang‐Cheng; Staiculescu, D.; Martin, Lara J.; Hwang, Woonbong; Tentzeris, Manos M.

doi:10.1109/aps.2006.1710587

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“…Other research groups and institutions promptly followed these initial discussions, using these CCD ideas to design chemical reactors 9,10 and aircraft. 11 Since the mid-1990s up to the present, the CCD methodology has been applied to numerous engineering areas, including underwater vehicles, 12,13 networked control systems, 14 wastewater treatment plants, 15 automotive suspensions, 16,17 wind turbines, 3,18 bicycles, 19 motorcycles, 20 composite smart antennas and mechanical structures, 21 flexible space structures, 22 airborne wind energy systems, 23 grid and power systems, 24 very flexible actuated structures, 25 variable stiffness actuators and robotics, 26 communication networks for intelligent vehicles, 27 automotive motor-transmission powertrains, 28 floating offshore wind turbines, 2,29-31 and tidal and wave energy converters. 29,30 Other relevant potential areas are biological and medical systems, digesters, water desalination, energy storage, conventional and renewable power generation, and power electronics.…”

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Control Co‐Design: An engineering game changer

García-Sanz

2019

Adv Control Appl

120

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Over the last few decades, control engineers have focused on developing innovative control theories and algorithms to regulate systems. These control efforts are usually at the last stage of a sequential strategy that allows engineering departments to work independently and consecutively toward the design of new products and systems. Control algorithms are usually developed at the end of that sequential process, once the mechanical, electrical, and other subsystems are completely defined. This paper discusses a different approach, named Control Co-Design (CCD). Following a concurrent engineering strategy that considers multidisciplinary subsystem interactions from the beginning of the design process, CCD applies control concepts to design the entire system and reach optimal solutions that are not achievable otherwise. This approach is a game changer for the control engineer, who will be not only the designer of advanced control algorithms but also the natural leader of the design of new products and systems. This paper describes some historic engineering breakthroughs achieved by applying CCD and explores some relevant application areas. It also presents three complementary CCD methodologies that include control-inspired paradigms, formal mathematical co-optimization techniques, and co-simulation campaigns to enhance engineering creativity and achieve radically new optimal designs.

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