Abstract
Optimal embodiment design and control systems can be solved using several different strategies. This paper considers whether those strategies will find the true system optimum. Optimality conditions determine whether a point is an optimum of a system. This paper presents a development and comparison of the optimality conditions for several methods of optimizing fully coupled embodiment design and control systems. The results demonstrate that the methods do not possess the same optimality conditions and therefore will not converge to the same optimal solutions, often leading to sub-optimal solutions. Since these strategies have been used successfully to solve various examples, criteria are developed to determine when the various methods will find the true system optimum.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 1023-1032 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| State | Published - 2001 |
| Event | 2001 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - Pittsburgh, PA, United States Duration: Sep 9 2001 → Sep 12 2001 |
Other
| Other | 2001 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Period | 9/9/01 → 9/12/01 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Modeling and Simulation
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design