A comprehensive robust design approach for decision trade-offs in complex systems design

In this paper introduce a technique to reduce the effects of uncertainty and incorporate flexibility in the design of complex engineering systems involving multiple decisionmakers. We focus on the uncertainty that is created when a disciplinary designer or design team must try to predict or model the behavior of other disciplinary subsystems. teams, each of which may only have control over a portion of rite total set of system The design of a complex system is performed by many different designers and design design variables. Modeling the interaction among these decision-makers and reducing the effect caused by lack of global control by any one designer is the focus of this paper. We rue concepts from robust design to reduce the effects of decisions made during the design of one one subsystem on the performance of the rest of the system. Thats, in a situation where the cost of uncertainty is high, these tools can be used to increase the robustness, or independence, of the subsystems, enabling designers to make more effective decisions. To demonstrate the usefulness of this approach, M;e consider a case study involving the design of a passenger aircraft.