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Chapter 5 Robust Performance Tailoring with Tuning - SSL - MIT

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the new tuning configuration is very close to the previous one, then the optimized<br />

tuning configuration is disregarded and a new one is chosen randomly. It is also<br />

possible to perform a new optimization in which the goal is to find a set of tuning<br />

parameters that result in the greatest reduction of the uncertainty space. It is not<br />

necessary to implement the alternate method in this thesis due to the form of the<br />

development model. However, such a technique may be useful for more complex<br />

design problems and should be considered in future work.<br />

4.3.4 Examples<br />

The isoperformance tuning algorithm is best illustrated through an example and<br />

is applied to the problem of tuning the SCI development model considered in the<br />

previous section on the same hardware model. The uncertainty space ranges ±10%<br />

about the nominal for both parameters, E1 and E2, and the required performance is<br />

280µm. The nominal hardware performance is 290.93µm so tuning is necessary on<br />

this system. Although the baseline tuning on this system is successful (see Table 4.3)<br />

applying AO tuning over the entire uncertainty space does not result in a tuning<br />

configuration. In fact, the optimization chooses to not tune the structure at all since<br />

any additional mass increases the performance at one of the uncertainty vertices. The<br />

isoperformance tuning algorithm is therefore applied to reduce the uncertainty space<br />

and bring the hardware performance <strong>with</strong>in requirements.<br />

The results of applying the isoperformance tuning algorithm to this problem are<br />

given in both graphical and tabular form in Figure 4-12. The tuning parameters,<br />

uncertainty bounds and performance data for each hardware test are listed in the<br />

Table 4-12(b). The first test is the hardware in its nominal configuration <strong>with</strong> no<br />

tuning parameters. The uncertainty bounds for this iteration are drawn on the ac-<br />

companying Figure 4-12(a) in dashed lines. The isoperformance contour for this<br />

performance is drawn in a solid lines and consists of two labelled segments. The seg-<br />

ments are mirror images of each other due to the model’s symmetry. Since there are<br />

two distinct iso-segments it is possible to reduce the uncertainty space significantly<br />

into two much smaller regions as indicted by the dotted lines around the contours.<br />

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