A PARAMETRIC TRANSFER FUNCTION FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF COUPLED COMPLEX PROBLEMS

Industrial production lines often involve multistage manufacturing processes with coupled boundary conditions. The output of a process is the input of another processing stage. The end product of such production line is complicated to optimize since its simulation includes countless number of parameters and degrees of freedom. Therefore, incorporating all the end product parameters as extra coordinates of the problem is still an intractable approach, despite the recent advances in computation power and model order reduction techniques. In this work, we explore an alternative approach using a physically based mechanical transfer function method, which expresses all the physics of the problem in a single function. All part external effects, including boundary conditions for example, become an input of such function. The output result of the proposed function is a real-time simulation of the consider product, for any possible input set of parameters.