Automated design synthesis of mechatronic vehicles with integrated control systems

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This research aims at developing an improved method for the automated design synthesis of mechatronic vehicles with integrated control systems (ICSs), involving differential braking control, active steering control and active roll moment control. The method will be used for automating the design synthesis of vehicles so that the mechanical and control subsystems will be simultaneously optimized. This proposed new approach will build upon the applicant's previous research in design methodologies of mechatronic vehicles. In the existing methodology, an original design problem is decomposed into a two-level optimization. However, this methodology is not suitable for the design synthesis of mechatronic vehicles with ICSs. The reasons for this are twofold: firstly, the optimization algorithm at the system level has difficulties coordinating a large number of design criteria and constraints, resulting from the decomposition of the original system design into the many subsystem designs at the only subsystem level; secondly, from the perspective of functional design, the integrated control systems are frequently decomposed into multi-level architectures.