Abstract: The following corrections were made to the manuscript: Fig. 11 was changed to show the correct markers for the optimal points in the Pareto fronts.The reference to the markers in the subsequent paragraphs is also corrected: ...

Abstract: Modifying the design of an existing system to meet the needs of a new task is a common activity in mechatronic system development. Often, engineers seek to meet requirements for the new task via control design changes ...

Abstract: Design of physical systems and associated control systems are coupled tasks; design methods that manage this interaction explicitly can produce systemoptimal designs, whereas conventional sequential processes may not. Here, ...

Abstract: Optimization of dynamic systems often requires system simulation. Several important classes of dynamic system models have computationally expensive time derivative functions, resulting in simulations that are significantly ...

Abstract: In this paper, general combined plant and control design or co-design problems are examined. The previous work in co-design theory imposed restrictions on the type of problems that could be posed. This paper lifts many of ...

Abstract: Here we describe a problem class with combined architecture, plant, and control design for dynamic engineering systems. The design problem class is characterized by architectures comprised of linear physical elements and ...

Abstract: Design-for-manufacturing (DFM) concepts have traditionally focused on design simplification; this is highly effective for relatively simple, mass-produced products, but tends to be too restrictive for more complex designs. ...

Abstract: Traditional design-for-manufacturability (DFM) strategies focus on efficiency and design simplification and tend to be too restrictive for optimization-based design methods

Abstract: While integrated physical and control system co-design has been demonstrated successfully on several engineering system design applications, it has been primarily applied in a deterministic manner without considering ...

Abstract: In this article, a class of architecture design problems is explored with perfect matchings (PMs). A perfect matching in a graph is a set of edges such that every vertex is present in exactly one edge. The perfect matching ...