• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.263-275
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• 2000

Multidisciplinary design optimization(MDO) can yield optimal design considering all the disciplinary requirements concurrently. A method to implement the collaborative optimization(CO) approach, one of the MDO methodologies, is developed using a pre-compiler “EzpreCompiler”, a design optimization library “EzOptimizer”, and a common object request broker architecture(CORBA) in distributed computing environment. The CO approach is applied to a mathematical example to show its applicability and equivalence to standard optimization(SO) formulation. In a realistic engineering problem such as optimal design of a two-member hub frame, optimal design of a speed reducer and initial design of a bulk carrier, the CO yields better results than the SO. Furthermore, the CO allows the distributed processing using the CORBA, which leads to reduction of overall computation time.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.133-146
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• 2006

Collaborative optimization (CO) is a multi-level decomposed methodology for a large-scale multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO). CO is known to have computational and organizational advantages. Its decomposed architecture removes a necessity of direct communication among disciplines, guaranteeing their autonomy. However, CO has several problems at convergence characteristics and computation time. In this study, such features are discussed and some suggestions are made to improve the performance of CO. Only for the system level optimization, genetic algorithm is used and gradient-based method is used for subspace optimizers. Moreover, response surface models are replaced as analyses in subspaces. In this manner, CO is applied to aero-structural design problems of the aircraft wing and its results are compared with the multidisciplinary feasible (MDF) method and the original CO. Through these results, it is verified that the suggested approach improves convergence characteristics and offers a proper solution.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.568-583
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 다분야 통합 설계최적화(MDO : Multidisciplinary Design Optimization)를 적용한 지구관측위성의 개념설계 과정 및 결과를 기술하였다. 현재까지 구축된 지구관측 위성의 데이터베이스를 기반으로 주요 파라미터에 대한 개념설계식을 정립하였으며, 다분야 통합 최적설계 아키텍처 중 CO(Collaborative Optimization) 기반을 이용하여 지구관측 위성 시스템의 최적 개념설계를 수행할 수 있는 설계 도구를 개발하였다. 주어진 제약조건을 만족시키면서 위성의 총 질량을 최소화하는 것을 설계 목표로 설정하였으며, 최적화 알고리즘으로는 SQP(Sequential Quadratic Programming)를 이용하였다. 다분야 통합 최적설계를 적용한 개념설계 결과와 ASNARO-1 및 IKONOS-2 위성 규격의 비교를 통해 해당설계도구의 유용성을 검증하였다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.373-381
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• 2017

A Collaborative Optimization (CO) methodology for ring-stiffened composite material pressure hull of underwater vehicle is proposed. Structural stability and material strength are both examined. Lamination parameters of laminated plates are introduced to improve the optimization efficiency. Approximation models are established based on the Ellipsoidal Basis Function (EBF) neural network to replace the finite element analysis in layout optimizers. On the basis of a two-level optimization, the simultaneous structure material collaborative optimization for the pressure vessel is implemented. The optimal configuration of metal liner and frames and composite material is obtained with the comprehensive consideration of structure and material performances. The weight of the composite pressure hull decreases by 30.3% after optimization and the validation is carried out. Collaborative optimization based on the lamination parameters can optimize the composite pressure hull effectively, as well as provide a solution for low efficiency and non-convergence of direct optimization with design variables.

• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.41-60
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• 2004

Ship design process requires lots of complicated analyses for determining a large number of design variables. Due to its complexity, the process is divided into several tractable designs or analysis problems. The interdependent relationship requires repetitive works. This paper employs collaborative optimization (CO), one of the multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) techniques, for treating such complex relationship. CO guarantees disciplinary autonomy while maintaining interdisciplinary compatibility due to its bi-level optimization structure. However, the considerably increased computational time and the slow convergence have been reported as its drawbacks. This paper proposes the use of an approximation model in place of the disciplinary optimization in the system-level optimization. Neural network classification is employed as a classifier to determine whether a design point is feasible or not. Kriging is also combined with the classification to make up for the weakness that the classification cannot estimate the degree of infeasibility. For the purpose of enhancing the accuracy of a predicted optimum and reducing the required number of disciplinary optimizations, an approximation management framework is also employed in the system-level optimization.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.822-827
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• 2005

Recently engineering systems problems become quite large and complicated. For those problems, design requirements are fairly complex. It is not easy to design such systems by considering only one discipline. Therefore, we need a design methodology that can consider various disciplines. Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) is an emerging optimization method to include multiple disciplines. So far, about seven MDO methodologies have been proposed for MDO. They are Multidisciplinary Feasible (MDF), Individual Feasible (IDF), All-at-Once (AAO), Concurrent Subspace Optimization (CSSO), Collaborative Optimization (CO), Bi-Level Integrated System Synthesis (BLISS) and Multidisciplinary Optimization Based on Independent Subspaces (MDOIS). In this research, the performances of the methods are evaluated and compared. Practical engineering problems may not be appropriate for fairness. Therefore, mathematical problems are developed for the comparison. Conditions for fair comparison are defined and the mathematical problems are defined based on the conditions. All the methods are coded and the performances of the methods are compared qualitatively as well as quantitatively.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.25-36
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• 2003

항공기 설계는 설계 전 분야에 걸친 설계 요소들을 모두 고려한 통합적 환경에서 이루어 져야 한다. 이를 위해 각 분야간의 데이터 공유 및 일관성, 무결성, 최신성 등이 요구되며 이러한 요구사항을 만족할 수 있는 효율적인 데이터베이스의 설계가 필요하다. 데이터베이스의 설계 순기는 저장되고 관리해야 할 데이터의 분석, E-R Diagram의 작성, 테이블 사상으로 이루어진다. 본 연구에서는 상용의 Oracle 8i 데이터베이스 관리시스템을 이용하여 데이터베이스를 설계, 구축하였다. MDF(MultiDisplinary Feasible), IDF(Individual Discipline Feasible), CO(Collaborative Optimization) 등의 MDO(Multidisciplinary Design Optimization) 기법을 적용할 수 있는 데이터베이스의 설계과정을 정립하고, 간단한 수치예제와 무인전투기 최적화 설계 등의 예제를 통하여 통합환경에서의 데이터베이스 설계 방법의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.609-618
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• 2002

In practical designs, most of the multidisciplinary problems have a large-size and complicate design system. Since multidisciplinary problems have hundreds of analyses and thousands of variables, the grouping of analyses and the order of the analyses in the group affect the speed of the total design cycle. Therefore, it is very important to reorder and regroup the original design processes in order to minimize the total computational cost by decomposing large multidisciplinary problems into several multidisciplinary analysis subsystems (MDASS) and by processing them in parallel. In this study, a new decomposition method is proposed for parallel processing of multidisciplinary design optimization, such as collaborative optimization (CO) and individual discipline feasible (IDF) method. Numerical results for two example problems are presented to show the feasibility of the proposed method.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2016

협력 필터링 기반의 추천시스템에서 유사도 측정은 시스템의 성능에 큰 영향을 미치는데, 이는 유사한 다른 사용자들로부터 항목을 추천받기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 전통적인 유사도 측정 방법의 가장 큰 문제인 데이터 희소성을 극복하기 위해, 기존의 유사도 측정값과 공통평가항목수의 반영값을 최적으로 결합하는 새로운 유사도 측정방식을 제안한다. 제안 방식의 성능 평가를 위해 다양한 조건으로 실험한 결과 기존 방식들보다 우수한 예측 정확도를 나타냈으며, 구체적으로 전통적인 피어슨 상관보다 최대 약 7%, 코사인 유사도보다는 최대 약 4% 향상된 결과를 보였다.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.268-283
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• 2016

Aircraft manufacturing companies have to consider multiple derivatives to satisfy various market requirements. They modify or extend an existing aircraft to meet new market demands while keeping the development time and cost to a minimum. Many researchers have studied the derivative design process, but these research efforts consider baseline and derivative designs together, while using the whole set of design variables. Therefore, an efficient process that can reduce cost and time for aircraft derivative design is needed. In this research, a more efficient design process is proposed which obtains global changes from local changes in aircraft design in order to develop aircraft derivatives efficiently. Sensitivity analysis was introduced to remove unnecessary design variables that have a low impact on the objective function. This prevented wasting computational effort and time on low priority variables for design requirements and objectives. Additionally, uncertainty from the fidelity of analysis tools was considered in design optimization to increase the probability of optimization results. The Reliability Based Design Optimization (RBDO) and Possibility Based Design Optimization (PBDO) methods were proposed to handle the uncertainty in aircraft conceptual design optimization. In this paper, Collaborative Optimization (CO) based framework with RBDO and PBDO was implemented to consider uncertainty. The proposed method was applied for civil jet aircraft derivative design that increases cruise range and the number of passengers. The proposed process provided deterministic design optimization, RBDO, and PBDO results for given requirements.