Development of an Intelligent Design Support Tool for Integrated Design of Multidomain Systems

多域系统集成设计智能设计支持工具的开发

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-05497
• 负责人: Achiche, Sofiane
• 金额: $ 3.35万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=754393
• 关键词: Development; Intelligent; Design; Support; Tool

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius. One can therefore argue that design of Mechatronic systems is a larger-than-life task and this discovery grant aims at making it a little bit simpler. On the one hand, in order to assure their commercial success, companies need to continuously innovate. However, innovation is not always a guarantee for market success as development costs still need to be kept low and product optimality kept high. To achieve this, an integrated approach to design is preferred. On the other hand, Mechatronic Systems are highly challenging products to design, because of their inherent multi-physical/domain aspects, high number of components, and the complex dynamic interconnections between the different engineering domains involved in their design. Because of this complexity, the engineers still tend to tackle the design task in a sequential domain-specific manner, even though an integrated design approach is known to yield better results. This discovery grant research program has the long-term goal of developing a specialized user-friendly integrated design support tool to increase efficiency, reliability, and flexibility, while reducing complexity, by easing system integration. The tool would target users such as engineers, engineering students and research professionals. The short-term objectives of this program focus on the conceptual design stage by facilitating complexity management and case studies validations. This will be achieved by reaching the following objectives: 1. Develop a method to assess the MeSys integration level during design while explicitly considering product-related dependencies. 2. Develop an AI-based solution capable of accurate and intelligent aggregation of multi-domain design criteria that considers their relative importance and their complex interactions. (Multi-Agent System) 3. Develop a design-support software platform to facilitate the use and validation of our numerous design-support algorithms through relevant Mechatronic systems design case studies.

“生活真的很简单，但我们坚持把它复杂化。“--孔子。因此，人们可以认为机电系统的设计是一项比生命更大的任务，这项发现补助金旨在使其变得更简单。一方面，为了确保商业成功，企业需要不断创新。然而，创新并不总是市场成功的保证，因为开发成本仍然需要保持在低水平，产品优化仍然需要保持在高水平。为了实现这一目标，最好采用综合设计方法。 另一方面，机电一体化系统是设计极具挑战性的产品，因为它们固有的多物理/域方面，大量的组件以及设计中涉及的不同工程领域之间的复杂动态互连。由于这种复杂性，工程师仍然倾向于以顺序的特定领域的方式处理设计任务，即使集成设计方法已知会产生更好的结果。 这项发现补助金研究计划的长期目标是开发一种专门的用户友好的集成设计支持工具，以提高效率，可靠性和灵活性，同时通过简化系统集成来降低复杂性。该工具将面向工程师、工科学生和研究专业人员等用户。该计划的短期目标侧重于概念设计阶段，促进复杂性管理和案例研究验证。这将通过实现以下目标来实现：1.开发一种方法，在设计期间评估MeSys集成水平，同时明确考虑产品相关的依赖性。 2.开发一个基于AI的解决方案，能够准确和智能地聚合多领域设计标准，考虑它们的相对重要性和复杂的交互。（多智能体系统）3.开发设计支持软件平台，通过相关的机电一体化系统设计案例研究，促进我们众多设计支持算法的使用和验证。