Methods in multidisciplinary design optimization rely on computer tools to manage the large amounts of information involved. One such tool is DeMAID (Design Manager's Aide for Intelligent Decomposition), which incorporates planning and scheduling functions to analyze the effect of the information coupling between design tasks in complex systems on the efficiency of the design process. Scheduling involves the formation of circuits of interdependent design tasks, and the minimization of feedbacks within these circuits. Recently there has been interest in the incorporation of other considerations in the sequencing of tasks within circuits. This study presents the program Gendes (Genetic design sequencer), a sequencing tool based on a genetic algorithm. The program currently has the capability to minimize feedbacks as well as crossovers (intersections in the flow of design information which obscure straightforward evaluation), and allows the potential for other considerations in the sequencing function. This paper presents the development of this tool and the methods used. The results of computational studies to determine the most effective settings of the genetic algorithm for the task sequencing problem are presented, including population size, objective function weighting for the tradeoff between feedbacks and crossovers, mutation rate, and choice of selection operator and fitness function form. The incorporation of Gendes into the DeMAID scheduling function is explored, and the method is applied to two test systems to show its feasibility.


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    Title :

    A genetic tool for optimal design sequencing in complex engineering systems


    Additional title:

    Ein genetischer Algorithmus für den optimalen Konstruktionsablauf bei komplexen Fahrzeugsystemen


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Structural Optimization ; 12 , 2/3 ; 186-201


    Publication date :

    1996


    Size :

    16 Seiten, 34 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 30 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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