The ongoing need for better fuel economy and lower exhaust pollution of vehicles has increased the employment of electric power steering(EPS)in automotives.Optimal design of EPS for a product family reduces the develo...The ongoing need for better fuel economy and lower exhaust pollution of vehicles has increased the employment of electric power steering(EPS)in automotives.Optimal design of EPS for a product family reduces the development and fabrication costs significantly.In this paper,the TOPSIS method along with the NSGA-Ⅱis employed to find an optimum family of EPS for an automotive platform.A multi-objective optimization problem is defined considering road feel,steering portability,RMS of Ackerman error,and product family penalty function(PFPF)as the conflicting objective functions.The results for the single objective optimization problems and the ones for the multi-objective optimization problem,as well as two suggested trade-off design points are presented,compared and discussed.For the two suggested points,performance at one objective function is deteriorated by about 1%,while the commonality is increased by 20%–40%,which shows the effectiveness of the proposed method in first finding the non-dominated design points and then selecting the trade-off among the obtained points.The results indicate that the obtained trade-off points have superior performance within the product family with maximum number of common parts.展开更多
For optimizing the cutting depth of spiral drum type cutting head,the relations among collecting ratio,interfusing ratio of mullock and cutting depth of the mining cobalt-rich crusts in ocean were discussed.Furthermor...For optimizing the cutting depth of spiral drum type cutting head,the relations among collecting ratio,interfusing ratio of mullock and cutting depth of the mining cobalt-rich crusts in ocean were discussed.Furthermore,the multi-extremum problem about cutting depth was analyzed in mining at a certain interfusing ratio of mullock.Through introducing genetic algorithm(GA),the cutting depth-control problem when the collecting ratio is maximized by controlling the interfusing ratio of mullock was solved with global-optimization-search algorithms.Then optimization theory for cutting depth in mining cobalt-rich crusts by GA,and computer programming were given to realize the algorithm.The computation result of actual data proves the validity of this method.展开更多
文摘The ongoing need for better fuel economy and lower exhaust pollution of vehicles has increased the employment of electric power steering(EPS)in automotives.Optimal design of EPS for a product family reduces the development and fabrication costs significantly.In this paper,the TOPSIS method along with the NSGA-Ⅱis employed to find an optimum family of EPS for an automotive platform.A multi-objective optimization problem is defined considering road feel,steering portability,RMS of Ackerman error,and product family penalty function(PFPF)as the conflicting objective functions.The results for the single objective optimization problems and the ones for the multi-objective optimization problem,as well as two suggested trade-off design points are presented,compared and discussed.For the two suggested points,performance at one objective function is deteriorated by about 1%,while the commonality is increased by 20%–40%,which shows the effectiveness of the proposed method in first finding the non-dominated design points and then selecting the trade-off among the obtained points.The results indicate that the obtained trade-off points have superior performance within the product family with maximum number of common parts.
基金Project(50474052)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2005) supported by the Youthful Teacher Skeleton Foundation of Hunan Province, ChinaProject supported by the Postdoctoral Foundation of China
文摘For optimizing the cutting depth of spiral drum type cutting head,the relations among collecting ratio,interfusing ratio of mullock and cutting depth of the mining cobalt-rich crusts in ocean were discussed.Furthermore,the multi-extremum problem about cutting depth was analyzed in mining at a certain interfusing ratio of mullock.Through introducing genetic algorithm(GA),the cutting depth-control problem when the collecting ratio is maximized by controlling the interfusing ratio of mullock was solved with global-optimization-search algorithms.Then optimization theory for cutting depth in mining cobalt-rich crusts by GA,and computer programming were given to realize the algorithm.The computation result of actual data proves the validity of this method.