Goal-oriented updating of mechanical models

Goal-oriented updating of mechanical models using the adjoint framework

In this paper, we introduce a goal-oriented procedure for the updating of mechanical models. It is based as usual on information coming from measurement data, but these data are post-processed in a convenient way in order to firstly update model parameters which are the most influent for the prediction of a given quantity of interest. The objective is thus to perform a partial model calibration...

Evaluating goal models within the goal-oriented requirement language

In this paper, we introduce the application of rigorous analysis procedures to goal models in order to provide several benefits beyond the initial act of modelling. Such analysis can allow modellers to assess the satisfaction of goals, facilitate evaluation of high-level design alternatives, help analysts decide on the high-level requirements and design of the system, test the sanity of a model...

Goal-oriented design of value and process models from patterns

Optimal control models of the goal-oriented human locomotion

In recent papers it has been suggested that human locomotion may be modeled as an inverse optimal control problem. In this paradigm, the trajectories are assumed to be solutions of an optimal control problem that has to be determined. We discuss the modeling of both the dynamical system and the cost to be minimized, and we analyze the corresponding optimal synthesis. The main results describe t...

A New Approach for Goal-Oriented Defomation of Voxel Models

A new volume deformation technique using FEM and voxel-texture (voxture) maps has been developed. In contrast to the traditional deformation techniques, the new algorithm is aimed at volume transformations, deformations and volume metamorphosis.