R&D for product design optimisation
R&D is a key point in this activity, therefore EURODECISION is a member of the System@tic competitive cluster and is partner in the following collaborative research projects:
CSDL
The CSDL (Complex Systems Design Laboratory) project aims to develop a collaborative environment for decision support by providing tools and methodologies for collaborative design of complex systems, particularly during the preliminary design phase.
The tools designed will be made available to the Computing & Services Platform (PCS), designed to provide access to simulation hardware and software, as well as to associated services in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). This platform, which will be open to all HPC stakeholders, will go online during the first half of 2010 at the Ter@tec campus.
This three-year project was launched in September 2009.
It has attracted 28 partners, including Dassault Aviation, Renault, MBDA, EADS, ESI, ANSYS, SAMTECH, EnginSoft, Oxalya, BULL, etc.
ACTIVOPT
The aim of the ACTIVOPT (Interactive optimisation tools for robust design) project is to
1. design and develop robust optimisation algorithms and
2. integrate them into the simulation and scientific computation applications in an interactive platform in order to ensure software interoperability.
This two-year project was launched in January 2009.
Partners: EnginSoft, FCS Digiteo (Scilab), etc.
OPSIM
The OPSIM (OPtimisation of design SIMulations) project concerns robust optimisation and designs. EURODECISION's goal is to consolidate and improve ther toolbox in the field of optimisation for product design, notably in relation to multidisciplinary studies:
- analysis of a large number of factors
- tools' capacity to adapt to changes in the problem definition during the course of the study
- multi-criteria analysis and optimisation tools
This two-year project was launched in September 2008.
Partners: Renault, Alstom, ESI, etc.
POPS
The purpose of the POPS (PetaOperations Per Second) project was to develop a new generation of high-power Petaflop-capacity applications as well as to validate future servers. For Eurodecision, the goal was to leverage supercomputers and their efficiency in order to set up parallel calculations for problems concerning multi-criteria optimisation and Pareto front generation. These objectives were attained for conceptual designs in the automobile industry and for linear programming applications.
This two-year project was completed in July 2009.
Parters: Bull, CEA, EDF, ESI, etc.
