Design Improvement for Complex Systems with Uncertainty
The uncertainty of the engineering system increases with its complexity, therefore, the tolerance to the uncertainty becomes important. Even under large variations of design parameters, the system performance should achieve the design goal in the design phase. Therefore, engineers are interested in...
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description | The uncertainty of the engineering system increases with its complexity, therefore, the tolerance to the uncertainty becomes important. Even under large variations of design parameters, the system performance should achieve the design goal in the design phase. Therefore, engineers are interested in how to turn a bad design into a good one with the least effort in the presence of uncertainty. To improve a bad design, we classify design parameters into key parameters and non-key parameters based on engineering knowledge, and then seek the maximum solution hyper-box which already includes non-key parameters of this bad design. The solution hyper-box on which all design points are good, that is, they achieve the design goal, provides target intervals for each parameter. The bad design can be turned into a good one by only moving its key parameters into their target intervals. In this paper, the PSO-Divide-Best method is proposed to seek the maximum solution hyper-box which is in compliance with the constraints. This proposed approach has a considerably high possibility to find the globally maximum solution hyper-box that satisfies the constraints and can be used in complex systems with black-box performance functions. Finally, case studies show that the proposed approach outperforms the EPCP and IA-CES methods in the literature. |
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spelling | doaj.art-aee12761ef1d43c3b3bb2e74be25a6902023-11-21T20:57:50ZengMDPI AGMathematics2227-73902021-05-01911117310.3390/math9111173Design Improvement for Complex Systems with UncertaintyYue Chen0Jian Shi1Xiao-Jian Yi2School of Statistics, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, ChinaAcademy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, ChinaSchool of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100811, ChinaThe uncertainty of the engineering system increases with its complexity, therefore, the tolerance to the uncertainty becomes important. Even under large variations of design parameters, the system performance should achieve the design goal in the design phase. Therefore, engineers are interested in how to turn a bad design into a good one with the least effort in the presence of uncertainty. To improve a bad design, we classify design parameters into key parameters and non-key parameters based on engineering knowledge, and then seek the maximum solution hyper-box which already includes non-key parameters of this bad design. The solution hyper-box on which all design points are good, that is, they achieve the design goal, provides target intervals for each parameter. The bad design can be turned into a good one by only moving its key parameters into their target intervals. In this paper, the PSO-Divide-Best method is proposed to seek the maximum solution hyper-box which is in compliance with the constraints. This proposed approach has a considerably high possibility to find the globally maximum solution hyper-box that satisfies the constraints and can be used in complex systems with black-box performance functions. Finally, case studies show that the proposed approach outperforms the EPCP and IA-CES methods in the literature.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/9/11/1173robustnesshyper-boxuncertaintyoptimizationkey parametersconstraints |
spellingShingle | Yue Chen Jian Shi Xiao-Jian Yi Design Improvement for Complex Systems with Uncertainty Mathematics robustness hyper-box uncertainty optimization key parameters constraints |
title | Design Improvement for Complex Systems with Uncertainty |
title_full | Design Improvement for Complex Systems with Uncertainty |
title_fullStr | Design Improvement for Complex Systems with Uncertainty |
title_full_unstemmed | Design Improvement for Complex Systems with Uncertainty |
title_short | Design Improvement for Complex Systems with Uncertainty |
title_sort | design improvement for complex systems with uncertainty |
topic | robustness hyper-box uncertainty optimization key parameters constraints |
url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/9/11/1173 |
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