System-based and concurrent design of a smart mechatronic system using the concept of mechatronic design quotient (MDQ)

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-21

  Behbahani, Saeed ^a,b   de Silva, Clarence W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Design criteria; Design evaluation; Fuzzy integral; Mechatronics

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FUZZY CONTROL; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; SOFT COMPUTING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONCURRENT DESIGN; DESIGN CRITERIA; DESIGN EVALUATION; FUZZY INTEGRAL; MECHATRONIC DESIGN QUOTIENT; SMART MECHATRONIC SYSTEM;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 40849100169     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.915058     Document Type: Article

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