Work-centered visual analytics to support multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization

Xin Yan, Qiao Mu, Timothy W. Simpson, Jia Li, Xiaolong Zhang

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

6 Scopus citations

Abstract

Information overload has become a notable problem in many multidisciplinary design optimization analyses. When dealing with large design datasets, engineering designers can quickly become overwhelmed by the data, solutions, and their relationship. This paper presents a work-centered visual analytics framework to address such challenges. The proposed framework integrates user-centered interactive visualization and data-oriented computational algorithms into two analytical loops to help designers perform in-depth analysis on a trade space. An application system prototype, LIVE, has been developed to support multidisciplinary design optimization. The proposed system allows designers to analyze data, discover patterns, and formalize preferences in a uniform and integrated software platform by combining visualization and data mining. This approach is expected to help designers efficiently making sense of complicated multi-dimensional design data sets.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication12th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference and 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference
PublisherAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.
ISBN (Print)9781600869303
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event12th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference and 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference - Indianapolis, IN, United States
Duration: Sep 17 2012Sep 19 2012

Publication series

Name12th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Conference and 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference

Other

Other12th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference and 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityIndianapolis, IN
Period9/17/129/19/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

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