Doctoral Dissertations

Jen-Chi Wu

Abstract

"The existing co-design methods of mechatronic products focus on co-design of mechanical and electronic components or co-design of computer hardware and software components. There exist no effective co-design methods for mechanical, electronic and software components at the concept design stage. The research objective of this dissertation work is to develop more effective systematic product design approaches for co-design of mechatronic products. Three innovative functional and object-oriented integrated design frameworks and one virtual prototyping application, which leverages on these three design frameworks, have been developed for co-design of mechatronic products. The three frameworks are: I) Hierarchical Object-Oriented Functional Modeling Framework, 2) Axiomatic Functional and Object-Oriented Product Design Framework, and 3) Integrated Function Structure and Object-Oriented Design Framework. These frameworks are utilized as the ground work for the construction of virtual prototypes. The technical objectives of this research include: 1. developing hierarchical object-oriented functional modeling framework to extend the previous function tree based functional design method; 2. developing the axiomatic functional and object-oriented product design framework to provide design guidance and to ensure preferred design based on the Independence Axiom; 3. developing the integrated function structure and object-oriented design framework to extend the previous function structure based functional design approach; 4. elaborating the developed frameworks by constructing a virtual prototype of an explosive ordinance disposal robot system"--Abstract, page iv.

Advisor(s)

Leu, M. C. (Ming-Chuan)

Committee Member(s)

Liou, Frank W.
Stone, Robert B.
Du, Xiaoping
Liu, Xiaoqing Frank

Department(s)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Publication Date

Fall 2009

Pagination

xiii, 134 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Rights

© 2009 Jen-Chi Wu, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

MechatronicsObject-oriented programming (Computer science)System analysisSystem design

Thesis Number

T 9565

Print OCLC #

748265478

Electronic OCLC #

905914088

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