ADAPTIVE RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD - A GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION SCHEME FOR APPROXIMATION-BASED DESIGN PROBLEMS |
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| Authors: | G GARY WANG ZUOMIN DONG PETER AITCHISON |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V6, Canada;2. Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria , Victoria, BC, Canada;3. Applied Mathematics, University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, MB, Canada |
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| Abstract: | For design problems involving computation-intensive analysis or simulation processes, approximation models are usually introduced to reduce computation lime. Most approximation-based optimization methods make step-by-step improvements to the approximation model by adjusting the limits of the design variables. In this work, a new approximation-based optimization method for computation-intensive design problems - the adaptive response surface method(ARSM), is presented. The ARSM creates quadratic approximation models for the computation-intensive design objective function in a gradually reduced design space. The ARSM was designed to avoid being trapped by local optima and to identify the global design optimum with a modest number of objective function evaluations. Extensive tests on the ARSM as a global optimization scheme using benchmark problems, as well as an industrial design application of the method, are presented. Advantages and limitations of the approach are also discussed |
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| Keywords: | Response surface method Approximate optimization Global optimization Design automation |
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