HEEDS

Hierarchical Evolutionary Engineering Design System

In the HEEDS environment, engineers easily define design parameters, multi-disciplinary design goals, and analysis tools to judge a design’s performance. Then, HEEDS performs many design iterations automatically while searching for those design parameter values that simultaneously meet all targets and criteria. This search uses advanced optimization algorithms and intelligent strategies that are hybrid and adaptive to effectively and efficiently search even the most complicated design spaces. HEEDS can perform hundreds of design iterations in less time than it would take to perform a handful of manual iterations, yielding much better designs in much less time.

 

HEEDS has three outstanding features that make it the most powerful design exploration and optimization tool available:

v     SHERPA is a Simultaneous Hybrid Exploration that is Robust, Progressive and Adaptive. This proprietary optimization search algorithm/strategy automatically and adaptively employs several methods at the same time to efficiently and effectively search even the most complex design spaces. Now there is no need to spend days identifying which optimization search method works best for your problem; just use them all!

v     CIA is a Cooperative Independent Agent search strategy to efficiently solve very complex or expensive design problems. It allows the user to divide and conquer these challenging problems, just as any good engineer would naturally do.

v     COMPOSE is a proprietary module for COMPonent Optimization within a System Environment, which speeds search by a factor of 10 – 1,000 on many classes of design optimization problems. This unique multi-level strategy makes seemingly intractable problems (e.g., crashworthiness, forming, CFD, etc.) with hundreds of design variables not only feasible, but straightforward. [read more]

In addition to Design Optimization, HEEDS also supports “Design of Experiment” (DOE) explorations, investigates “Design Robustness” and features “Process Automation” to capture and automate existing engineering simulation processes.

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Red Cedar Technology, Inc.
4572 South Hagadorn Rd., Suite 1-E
East Lansing,  MI 48823
Phone: (517) 664 1173
Fax: (517) 664 1175
Web: http://www.redcedartech.com/
email: info@redcedartech.com

Reference:

HEEDS User's Manual, Red Cedar Technology, Inc., Mich., 2003.

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