Typical challenges of simulation-based design optimization include unavailable gradients and unreliable approximations thereof, expensive function evaluations, numerical noise, multiple local optima, and the failure of the analysis to return a value to the optimizer. One possible remedy to alleviate these issues is to use surrogate models in lieu of the computational models or simulations and derivative-free optimization algorithms. In this work, we use the R dynaTree package to build statistical surrogates of the blackboxes and the direct search method for derivative-free optimization. We present different formulations for the surrogate problem (SP) considered at each search step of the mesh adaptive direct search (MADS) algorithm using a surrogate management framework. The proposed formulations are tested on 20 analytical benchmark problems and two simulation-based multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) problems. Numerical results confirm that the use of statistical surrogates in MADS improves the efficiency of the optimization algorithm. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4028756]
Statistical surrogate formulations for simulation-based design optimization
Journal of mechanical design ; 137 , 2
2015
Article (Journal)
English
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Local classification TIB: | 770/5315/5330 |
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