Design Formulation for a Multi-criteria Optimization of Mechatronic Systems

This paper introduces a Mechatronic Concurrent Design procedure to address multidisciplinary fields in Mechatronics. This approach takes into account multiple criteria and design variables from mainly mechanical aspects, control issues, and task-oriented features to formulate an optimization problem, which is solved using heuristic algorithms. An example is discussed to show the feasibility and characteristics of the procedure.