Skeleton model-based product low carbon design optimization

With the diversification and customization of product design route, low-carbon design optimization has become a new method to determine the optimal product parameters. Numerical optimization is an effective tool in the analysis of engineering system. As it is crucial to analyze the behaviour of the products with the optimization of complex products, many valuable contributions are obtained. The current researches always focus on optimization design in detail design. However, at the early stage of design process, it could not be obtained with detailed information, and the rough and uncertain information is always gradual in the design process. This paper is devoted to product low carbon design optimization based on the skeleton model under the condition of insufficient information at the early design stage. After the design principle for compliant exoskeleton robotics is discussed, the parameter optimization based on skeleton model under low carbon constraints is then proposed. The exoskeleton robotics with the consideration of compliant mechanism is given as an example which demonstrates that the methodology is helpful to skeleton model-based low carbon optimization approach, which facilitates the development of customized exoskeleton robots. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.