{"id":61362,"date":"2016-07-19T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-387637"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:19:23","slug":"design-and-optimization-of-space-system-architectures-applying-and-extracting-lessons-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/stmd\/space-tech-research-grants\/design-and-optimization-of-space-system-architectures-applying-and-extracting-lessons-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Design and Optimization of Space System Architectures: Applying and Extracting Lessons Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nozomi Hitomi<\/strong><br>\n<em>Cornell University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1370\" height=\"1713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?w=1370\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Nozomi Hitomi\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg 1370w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?resize=240,300 240w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?resize=768,960 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?resize=819,1024 819w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?resize=1228,1536 1228w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?resize=320,400 320w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?resize=480,600 480w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?resize=720,900 720w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?resize=960,1200 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1370px) 100vw, 1370px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Nozomi Hitomi<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>TABS 11.2.6, TABS 11.3.3, and TABS 11.4.2 call for improvements in tradespace exploration and analysis technology that takes advantage of model based system engineering approaches. These technologies would support mission design and other decision-making by 1) searching the space of decision variables and identifying Pareto optimal solutions and 2) identifying the key tradeoffs in the objectives and the driving decisions. Maturing these technologies is critical for system architecture design because the architecture has the largest impact on downstream decisions and on the system\u2019s performance, cost, risk flexibility, and other figures of merit. Specifically, NASA is interested in applying tradespace exploration and analysis technologies to distributed spacecraft missions (DSM). Designing DSMs are a challenge because of the large number of design variables and their complex interactions, many nonlinear constraints including power requirements and link budgets, multiple conflicting objectives of maximizing performance while minimizing cost and risk, and local optima present in the tradespace. System models are being developed to evaluate a system, but optimizing the architecture and understanding the tradespace remains difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEA) show promise as a decision-support tool, because they can solve problems that are non-linear, non-convex, and continuous or discrete. MOEAs have been used in tradeoff and sensitivity analyses by NASA, the Aerospace Corporation, and JAXA. MOEAs, however, are computationally inefficient because they rely on stochastic sampling of the decision space and do not leverage the knowledge of the problem structure or the domain. A more efficient optimization method is needed to handle the challenges associated with designing DSMs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed research will develop a knowledge-intensive optimization method that exploits expert-knowledge to explore the tradespace, much like how concurrent engineering design teams rely on expert experience. The knowledge-intensive optimization implements a multi-objective hyper-heuristic that adapts its search strategy to use an effective mix of codified expert knowledge and stochastic sampling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make sense of the possibly millions of solutions returned by the optimization, researchers are just beginning to develop tradespace analysis technologies that visualize the relationship between design variables and objectives. The proposed research will develop a knowledge-extraction module to produce a more compact summary of the driving decisions that lead to optimal solutions using association rule mining and classification trees. Association rule mining will identify the design decisions that have large impact, and the classification trees will use these design decisions and create a partially ordered list indicating their relative importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed technologies will be demonstrated on DSM design case-studies to validate their efficacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/strg\/nstrf-2016\"><strong>Back to NSTRF 2016 Full List<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nozomi Hitomi Cornell University TABS 11.2.6, TABS 11.3.3, and TABS 11.4.2 call for improvements in tradespace exploration and analysis technology that takes advantage of model based system engineering approaches. These technologies would support mission design and other decision-making by 1) searching the space of decision variables and identifying Pareto optimal solutions and 2) identifying the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":63386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[9529,12750],"coauthors":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Design and Optimization of Space System Architectures: Applying and Extracting Lessons Learned","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/stmd\/space-tech-research-grants\/design-and-optimization-of-space-system-architectures-applying-and-extracting-lessons-learned\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/stmd\/space-tech-research-grants\/design-and-optimization-of-space-system-architectures-applying-and-extracting-lessons-learned\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg"},"articleSection":"NASA Directorates","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Loura Hall"}],"creator":["Loura Hall"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":["NASA Directorates","Space Technology Mission Directorate","Space Technology Research Grants"],"dateCreated":"2016-07-19T22:55:00Z","datePublished":"2016-07-19T22:55:00Z","dateModified":"2023-07-26T16:19:23Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"Design and Optimization of Space System Architectures: Applying and Extracting Lessons Learned\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/stmd\/space-tech-research-grants\/design-and-optimization-of-space-system-architectures-applying-and-extracting-lessons-learned\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"post\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2016-07-19T22:55:00Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"NASA Directorates\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-tags\" content=\"NASA Directorates,Space Technology Mission Directorate,Space Technology Research Grants\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"Loura Hall\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":3,"time_ago":"8 years","featured_image":{"id":63386,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hitomi_nozomi.jpg","title":"hitomi_nozomi","alt":"Nozomi Hitomi","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463502,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61362\/revisions\/463502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61362"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=61362"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=61362"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=61362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}