Pub Date : 2016-11-17DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746537
Abdalla Ali, P. Hackney, M. Birkett, David Bell
In this paper a combination of Genetic Algorithm (GA) and a modified version of a very recent and computationally efficient approach to non-dominated sort called Efficient Non-dominated Sorting (ENS) has been introduced to solve the Multi-Objective Job Shop Scheduling Problem (MO-JSSP). Genetic algorithm was used to lead the search towards the Pareto optimality whilst an Efficient Non-dominated Sorting using a Sequential Strategy (ENS-SS) has been employed to determine the front to which each solution belongs, but instead of starting with the first front, the proposed algorithm starts the comparison with the last created front so far, and this is termed as a Backward Pass Sequential Strategy (BPSS). Efficient Non-dominated Sorting using the Backward Pass Sequential Strategy (ENS-BPSS) can reduce the number of comparisons needed for N solutions with M objectives when there are fronts and there exists only one solution in each front to O(M(N -1)). Computational results validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-14DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746553
Walid Merrad, A. Rachedi, K. Busawon, R. Binns
In the current day and age, traffic in urban areas is becoming more and more complex leading to congested roads and intersections. Hence, the need for sophisticated traffic control system to reduce the congestion and provide better flow management. In this paper, we present briefly the basic notions and the most important parameters that affects the traffic control. Then, we provide a survey on the main flow management systems that are available in the literature. Some possible future research works and propositions on intelligent traffic control are also provided.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746545
Novica Z. Janković, Milos Z. Slijepcevic, Dorde S. Cantrak, Ivana I. Gadanski
Teaching subject Fans and turbocompressors involves in its curriculum design of axial turbocompressors, with focus on impeller and guide vanes design. Students develop 3D construction on the basis of the inlet design parameters: mass flow rate, inlet pressure, inlet temperature, inlet and outlet pressure ratio and Mach number. The whole project was finalized only with the computer animation. Recently, digital fabrication is involved in the process of students' education. Nowadays students are able to print designed impeller blade and to study its construction. 3D printing machine - Printrbot Simple is used. Designed and fabricated axial fan impeller blade will be presented in this paper.
{"title":"Application of 3D printing in M.Sc. studies — Axial turbocompressors","authors":"Novica Z. Janković, Milos Z. Slijepcevic, Dorde S. Cantrak, Ivana I. Gadanski","doi":"10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746545","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching subject Fans and turbocompressors involves in its curriculum design of axial turbocompressors, with focus on impeller and guide vanes design. Students develop 3D construction on the basis of the inlet design parameters: mass flow rate, inlet pressure, inlet temperature, inlet and outlet pressure ratio and Mach number. The whole project was finalized only with the computer animation. Recently, digital fabrication is involved in the process of students' education. Nowadays students are able to print designed impeller blade and to study its construction. 3D printing machine - Printrbot Simple is used. Designed and fabricated axial fan impeller blade will be presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":351424,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Optimization (MEDO)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126551870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746538
S. Jelena, Trivkovic Zorana, Baltic Marija, Pekovic Ognjen
A fast and efficient process of integrated design (both aerodynamic and structural) of a composite horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) blade is presented. Multi-objective optimization using a nondeterministic particle swarm method (PSO) has been performed on a composite blade of constant radius to achieve maximal AEP (annual energy production) while keeping minimal blade mass and tip deflection. Outlet parameters include: twist and chord distributions along the blade as well as ply numbers and orientations. A combination of glass and carbon fibers is considered. In the constrained version of this multi-criteria assessment, constraint was defined according to blade failure index. Aerodynamic performances of the blade were estimated by a combined BEMT (blade element momentum theory) approach, while structural computations were performed using finite element method. Although presented results provide insight into the possible values of optimized parameters, the paper also demonstrates the difficulty of simultaneous satisfaction of this many different criteria (both cost functions and constrains).
{"title":"Rapid multidisciplinary, multi-objective optimization of composite horizontal-axis wind turbine blade","authors":"S. Jelena, Trivkovic Zorana, Baltic Marija, Pekovic Ognjen","doi":"10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746538","url":null,"abstract":"A fast and efficient process of integrated design (both aerodynamic and structural) of a composite horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) blade is presented. Multi-objective optimization using a nondeterministic particle swarm method (PSO) has been performed on a composite blade of constant radius to achieve maximal AEP (annual energy production) while keeping minimal blade mass and tip deflection. Outlet parameters include: twist and chord distributions along the blade as well as ply numbers and orientations. A combination of glass and carbon fibers is considered. In the constrained version of this multi-criteria assessment, constraint was defined according to blade failure index. Aerodynamic performances of the blade were estimated by a combined BEMT (blade element momentum theory) approach, while structural computations were performed using finite element method. Although presented results provide insight into the possible values of optimized parameters, the paper also demonstrates the difficulty of simultaneous satisfaction of this many different criteria (both cost functions and constrains).","PeriodicalId":351424,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Optimization (MEDO)","volume":"312 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133239676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746541
Ivana I. Gađanski, Đorđe S Čantrak
Fab labs (fabrication laboratories) and makerspaces are still only starting to form in Serbia. There is only one fully functional fab lab operating in Serbia that is also registered at Fab Foundation — Polyhedra fab lab, while there are three more in formation, namely Fab lab Petnica, Fab lab Belgrade intended to be at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade and SciFabLab at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME), Univ. of Belgrade. The paper describes the formation of the SciFabLab at FME and presents details on organization, program and participants of FABelgrade2016 — first regional conference on digital fabrication and fab labs that was organized by the authors and the team, in May 2016: www.fabelgrade.io. The paper also depicts how different players in Serbia and the region are connecting to form the first fab lab/makerspace ecosystem in Serbia and the region.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746543
Vesna-Mila Colic-Damjanovic, I. Gadjanski
A fablab, with its set of different tools and machines for digital fabrication, as well as with the people with various expertise who work in there, is a perfect environment for inter- and multidisciplinary connections and research. More and more fablabs are including the biology i.e. wet-lab components giving opportunity for various phenomena to be investigated from different perspectives, one from the biological point of view and the other from e.g. architectural. Biomimicry in architecture is an innovative concept of using organic forms found in nature as architectural solutions. Taking into account that such forms are difficult to produce in 3D without the tools of digital fabrication, present in a fablab, the authors postulate that the fablab (or more precisely a biofablab) can be efficiently utilized as a lab for biomimicry architecture research.
{"title":"Potentials of fablabs for biomimetic architectural research","authors":"Vesna-Mila Colic-Damjanovic, I. Gadjanski","doi":"10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746543","url":null,"abstract":"A fablab, with its set of different tools and machines for digital fabrication, as well as with the people with various expertise who work in there, is a perfect environment for inter- and multidisciplinary connections and research. More and more fablabs are including the biology i.e. wet-lab components giving opportunity for various phenomena to be investigated from different perspectives, one from the biological point of view and the other from e.g. architectural. Biomimicry in architecture is an innovative concept of using organic forms found in nature as architectural solutions. Taking into account that such forms are difficult to produce in 3D without the tools of digital fabrication, present in a fablab, the authors postulate that the fablab (or more precisely a biofablab) can be efficiently utilized as a lab for biomimicry architecture research.","PeriodicalId":351424,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Optimization (MEDO)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127784601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746548
A. Husagic-Selman, T. Namas
Due to the parallel features of hardware devices multi-threading became a trend in applications that require intensive computations. However, it is not always the best [1]. In this ongoing work an overview of real-life Power Distribution Management System (PDMS) is given and its performance in single-threaded and multi-threaded environment is tested. PDMS implements parallelism through sub-division of networks based on their natural features. Each sub-network is run in parallel on separate processor cores using a single thread processing, and with such setup it outperforms the multi-threaded BLAS by the factor of 20. With multi-threading implemented, the performance dreadfully goes down, and processing time increases. Reasons for this are the structure of power distribution network matrices (indefinite and very sparse) and synchronization overhead involved in multi-thread operations.
{"title":"Power distribution management system software deployment","authors":"A. Husagic-Selman, T. Namas","doi":"10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746548","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the parallel features of hardware devices multi-threading became a trend in applications that require intensive computations. However, it is not always the best [1]. In this ongoing work an overview of real-life Power Distribution Management System (PDMS) is given and its performance in single-threaded and multi-threaded environment is tested. PDMS implements parallelism through sub-division of networks based on their natural features. Each sub-network is run in parallel on separate processor cores using a single thread processing, and with such setup it outperforms the multi-threaded BLAS by the factor of 20. With multi-threading implemented, the performance dreadfully goes down, and processing time increases. Reasons for this are the structure of power distribution network matrices (indefinite and very sparse) and synchronization overhead involved in multi-thread operations.","PeriodicalId":351424,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Optimization (MEDO)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132949043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746547
D. Lukač
Curricula of the Universities and especially of the Universities of Applied Sciences should be, in the best case, developed in such way, that graduates' knowledge should reflect contemporary requirements of the industry, without to losing the assertion of universality as the central perspective of the higher education. This awareness is often identified, but in the real case, the organization of the teaching contents at the university towards the industrial requirements, every so often does not functioning capably enough. Key reason for it is the dynamic and increasingly progression of the industrial and technological development, which can't be reached at the university side. This paper presents one solution for this problem. Presented is the collaboration between EPLAN Software and Services GmbH & Co.KG, as one of the worldwide key industrial company working in the domain of development of Electro-CAD software applications and the University of Applied Sciences from Cologne, Germany. Special insights are given to the development of the certification program called EPLAN Certified Student (ECS).
在最好的情况下,大学的课程,特别是应用科学大学的课程,应该以这样的方式发展,即毕业生的知识应该反映行业的当代要求,而不会失去作为高等教育中心观点的普遍性主张。这种意识经常被识别出来,但在实际情况下,大学对工业要求的教学内容的组织,往往不能充分发挥作用。其主要原因是产业和技术发展的动态和不断进步,这是高校方面无法做到的。本文提出了一种解决方案。介绍了EPLAN软件和服务有限公司(EPLAN Software and Services GmbH & Co.KG)与德国科隆应用科学大学之间的合作,EPLAN是全球主要的电子cad软件应用开发公司之一。特别的见解被称为EPLAN认证学生(ECS)的认证计划的发展。
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746552
T. Macquart
The aim of the present paper is to identify the limitations of current multi-step composite optimisation strategies and subsequently propose research directions in order address these issues. For that purpose, a review focusing on recently published research including multi-step composite optimisation is carried out. Results and recommendations from these works are then used to draw a set of potential future research topics.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746550
Predrag Škobalj, M. Jovanović, Biljana Vucicevic, Valentina Turanjanin, M. Kijevčanin
Coal combustion power plant Kolubara A has five thermal units with total installed capacity of 270 MW operates as a part of Public Enterprise which has planned to accept and apply the Clean Development Mechanism (new power plants on lignite and natural gas with higher energy efficiency as well as activities related to the rehabilitation and modernization of existing facilities). Two units were put in operation before more than fifty years and in order to extend the lifetime of these blocks in the process of revitalization, in this paper, beside an existing option which considers coal (lignite) combustion, are analysed possible options of thermal power units with gas and renewable energy sources: biomass, renewable solid fuels, waste materials, wind and sun. Paper presents seven energy system options of the thermal unit status which are described with suitable chosen indicators in respect to different aspects of sustainability: economical, ecological, social and resources indicators. In this paper energy indicators are defined as a tool for the sustainability assessment of energy system options. ASPID method of multi-criteria assessment was used to calculate general index of sustainability and obtained ranking of options. This study presented and analysed cases, with predefined constraints when priority has environmental indicator and different conditions where one of sub-indicators have priority, as an example of applying multi-criteria method.
{"title":"Application of multi-criteria assessment in decision-making proces in planning of sustainable development of energy system options","authors":"Predrag Škobalj, M. Jovanović, Biljana Vucicevic, Valentina Turanjanin, M. Kijevčanin","doi":"10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEDO.2016.7746550","url":null,"abstract":"Coal combustion power plant Kolubara A has five thermal units with total installed capacity of 270 MW operates as a part of Public Enterprise which has planned to accept and apply the Clean Development Mechanism (new power plants on lignite and natural gas with higher energy efficiency as well as activities related to the rehabilitation and modernization of existing facilities). Two units were put in operation before more than fifty years and in order to extend the lifetime of these blocks in the process of revitalization, in this paper, beside an existing option which considers coal (lignite) combustion, are analysed possible options of thermal power units with gas and renewable energy sources: biomass, renewable solid fuels, waste materials, wind and sun. Paper presents seven energy system options of the thermal unit status which are described with suitable chosen indicators in respect to different aspects of sustainability: economical, ecological, social and resources indicators. In this paper energy indicators are defined as a tool for the sustainability assessment of energy system options. ASPID method of multi-criteria assessment was used to calculate general index of sustainability and obtained ranking of options. This study presented and analysed cases, with predefined constraints when priority has environmental indicator and different conditions where one of sub-indicators have priority, as an example of applying multi-criteria method.","PeriodicalId":351424,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Optimization (MEDO)","volume":"9 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126211906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}