Tools for the robust design of low frequency electromagnetic devices

研发项目的目标是为稳健的工程设计创建有效的工具，从而提高设计工程师的生产力。这些工具的直接应用是低频电磁设备和系统，包括发电机（水力、风力、蒸汽等），电动机（用于混合动力车辆、工业机械、家用设备、便携式装置、计算机系统等），执行器（包括MEMS器件）、传感系统和无损检测技术（如用于石油和天然气管道、核电站和飞机检测）。增强的设计工具将提高大规模生产设备的制造产量，并可能提高机电能量转换的效率。适当的设计工具的建设需要在几个领域的计算分析，包括多目标优化，多物理场的解决方案和性能评估的研究。此外，软计算（即基于知识的系统）的发展有可能加速数值分析技术，并提供了一个基础，从设计规范的设备合成。这些领域的合并将提供一种新颖而独特的基于计算机的设计能力，这种能力将基于多核处理器和大容量存储器的新硬件环境。许多中间目标的主要研究领域以外的应用，并将有助于开发工具，支持工程设计一般。

The goal of the research and development project is the creation of effective tools for robust engineering design leading to the increased productivity of design engineers. The immediate application of these tools is to low frequency electromagnetic devices and systems, including power generators (hydro, wind, steam, etc.), electric motors (for hybrid vehicles, industrial machinery, domestic equipment, portable devices, computer systems, etc.), actuators (including MEMS devices), sensing systems and non-destructive testing techniques (such as is used in oil and gas pipelines; nuclear power stations and aircraft inspection). Enhanced design tools will improve the manufacturing yield of mass produced devices as well as making possible increases in the efficiencies of electromechanical energy conversion. The construction of appropriate design tools requires research in several areas of computational analysis including multi-objective optimization, multi-physics field solutions and performance evaluation. In addition, developments in soft computing (i.e. knowledge based systems) have the potential for accelerating numerical analysis techniques and providing a basis for device synthesis from design specifications. The merging of these areas will provide a novel and unique computer based design capability which will be based around the new hardware environment of multi-core processors and massive memories. Many of the intermediate objectives have applications outside the primary research area and will contribute to the development of tools for the support of engineering design in general.