Agent-Based Approach for the Optimal Design of Mechatronic Systems
Résumé
Mechatronic design optimization is a hard task especially if performed by several different designers geographically distributed and using different modeling tools. Therefore, the design tasks should be divided into partitions easier to manage to reduce this complexity. However, the optimization of the overall design requires incorporating the relevant partitions in order to find the optimum mechatronic design. Efficient strategies of partitioning and coordination should be specified at the conceptual level to have a successful optimization process. In this study, a new efficient collaborative optimization approach based on multi-agent paradigm is proposed for mechatronic design optimization. The proposed method is applied to the preliminary design case of an electric vehicle to demonstrate its validity and effectiveness.