Characteristics study of an electronic systems design strategy

Abstract

Purpose

This work seeks to present the theoretical study considerations and the characteristics of a general design methodology in optimal time for electronic systems using numerical methods and optimal control theory. Through this, the design problem of a system is formulated in terms of optimal control in minimal time.

Design/methodology/approach

This general design methodology includes the traditional design strategy (TDS), and the modified traditional design strategy (MTDS), where the model of the system is part of the optimization procedure but an objective function of the optimization process is constructed such as includes the traditional objective function and some penalty functions that feign the model of the system. Many special control functions are introduced artificially to generalize the methodology and produce several design trajectories for the same optimization process – the first and final trajectories correspond to TDS and MTDS, respectively. The combination of these trajectories produce an infinite number of design strategies, some of these are quasi‐optimal in time and only one is optimal in time.

Findings

Qualitative and numeric results of this iterative process are generated in a personal computer in a C++ language elaborated with a visual C++ graphic user interface. An algorithm is constructed to form an optimal in time design strategy switching from a MTDS subset to a TDS subset. Results of measured times are analyzed, showing that there is a control input U, such that the objective function is minimized in a minimum time.

Originality/value

These ideas are proposed using method of gradient optimization and special acceleration effect.

Citation

Ángel San Pablo Juárez, M., Zemliak, A. and Ríos Silva, E. (2013), "Characteristics study of an electronic systems design strategy", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 32 No. 3, pp. 850-867. https://doi.org/10.1108/03321641311305791