Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Thesis No. 1585
Collaborative Multidisciplinary
Design Optimization
A Framework Applied on Aircraft Systems and Industrial Robots
Edris Safavi
201 3 C oll abo ra tiv e M ult id isc ip lin ar y D esi gn O pti m iza tio n Ed ris S afa viDivision of Machine Design
Department of Management and Engineering Linköpings universitet
SE-58183 Linköping, Sweden Linköping 2013
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This thesis presents various methods that can be used in the design of complex products in order to increase the engineer knowledge in the conceptual design phase.
In complex products, different systems from several engineering dis-ciplines have to be tightly integrated. Collaborative design is defined as a process where a product is designed through the collective and joint efforts of domain experts . Thus, a Collaborative Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (CMDO) process is proposed in the conceptual design phase in order to increase the likelihood for more accurate de-cisions taken early on.
To enable CMDO, it is a necessity to validate the tools and models uti-lized. This can be done with so-called low cost demonstrators which can also help to reveal many unknowns and thus further increase the engineering knowledge.
The performance of the presented methods is demonstrated with two industrial applications, aircraft conceptual system design and industri-al robot design. C oll abo ra tiv e M ult id isc ip lin ar y D esi gn O pti m iza tio n Ed ris S afa vi
