Towards Multistage Design of Modular Systems
Abstract
The paper describes multistage design of composite (modular) systems (i.e., design of a system trajectory). This design process consists of the following: (i) definition of a set of time/logical points; (ii) modular design of the system for each time/logical point (e.g., on the basis of combinatorial synthesis as hierarchical morphological design or multiple choice problem) to obtain several system solutions; (iii) selection of the system solution for each time/logical point while taking into account their quality and the quality of compatibility between neighbor selected system solutions (here, combinatorial synthesis is used as well). Mainly, the examined time/logical points are based on a time chain. In addition, two complicated cases are considered: (a) the examined logical points are based on a tree-like structure, (b) the examined logical points are based on a digraph. Numerical examples illustrate the approach.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1306.4635,
title = {Towards Multistage Design of Modular Systems},
author = {Mark Sh. Levin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.4635},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
13 pages, 25 figures, 14 tables