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Chapter 5 Robust Performance Tailoring with Tuning - SSL - MIT

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Table 5.2: <strong>Performance</strong> and design parameters for optimal designs.<br />

<strong>Tailoring</strong>, �x <strong>Performance</strong>, [µm] Total Mass<br />

d1 [m] d2 [m] m1 m2 σ0 σWC [kg]<br />

PT 0.030 0.030 0.0 1.934 100.53 1355.50 673.18<br />

RPT 0.0486 0.0581 0.0 0.0 263.87 306.86 827.04<br />

RPTT 0.0451 0.0388 N/A N/A 158.53 572.66 740.05<br />

(AO) designs. The RPTT design is significantly different from both the PT and RPT<br />

designs. In the PT design all of the truss segments are of equal diameter and are<br />

at the lower bound, while in the RPT design they are tailored so that the mass is<br />

concentrated towards the center of the array <strong>with</strong> the inner truss diameters are about<br />

a centimeter larger that those of the outer truss segments. The RPTT design is<br />

opposite the RPT as the inner segments have a smaller cross-sectional diameter than<br />

the outer segments, so mass is distributed towards the ends of the array. The tuning<br />

parameters are used as tailoring parameters in the PT and RPT optimizations so that<br />

the same design variables are used to ensure a fair comparison among the methods.<br />

The PT design has the lowest nominal cost by far (100.53µm), but is very sen-<br />

sitive to uncertainty <strong>with</strong> a worst case performance of 1355µm. The RPT design is<br />

much more robust to uncertainty, and has a much lower worst-case performance value<br />

(306.86µm), but sacrifices nominal performance (263.87µm) to achieve this robust-<br />

ness. The RPTT design lies somewhere in between the PT and RPT designs. It has<br />

a nominal performance of 158.53µm, higher than that of the PT design, but lower<br />

than that of the RPT design. It is not quite as robust as the RPT design, but has a<br />

much lower worst-case performance (572.66µm) than the PT design.<br />

Table 5.3: <strong>Performance</strong> and parameters for tuned worst-case realizations.<br />

<strong>Tuning</strong>, �y [kg] <strong>Performance</strong> Total Mass<br />

m1 m2 σt [µm] [kg]<br />

PT 175.06 0.0 303.17 848.25<br />

RPT 81.04 0.0 273.32 908.08<br />

RPTT 0.0 175.88 215.94 915.94<br />

The tuned performance of the designs is obtained by applying the tuning op-<br />

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