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Isight Research Edition
The academic Isight Research Edition has the same functionality as the commercial version. Universities are given access to our full suite of visual and flexible tools to set up an automated plan to thoroughly explore the design space and find optimum solutions, using techniques such as optimization, DFSS, approximations, and DOE. Advanced, interactive postprocessing tools allow engineering students to see the design space from multiple points of view. Design trade-offs and the relationships between parameters and results are easily understood and assessed, leading to the best possible design decisions, the best possible grade, and an edge when entering the job market.
The Isight Research offering provides a commercial grade software package at academic pricing. Packages for classroom instructional use are also available.
Isight Research Edition |
- Optimization
- Design of Experiments
- Monte Carlo Simulations
- Approximations
- Six Sigma
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Customer Testimonial
"Over the many years we have been using Isight our graduate students have found it to be useful in a wide variety of ways to solve a number of different design optimization problems...[Read More]", including hybrid vehicle design, robotic controller design, engine optimization and design of shape memory alloy actuators. Many of the design problems we study have multi-modal, discontinuous and noisy responses, so the ability within Isight to switch quickly between developing a DOE to creating a metamodel and then optimizing using various algorithms has been especially valuable.
However, perhaps the most powerful feature of Isight for our research is its ability to quickly connect to many different simulation software packages. Our graduate students have used it to connect to Abaqus, Matlab, Simulink, ANSYS, AVL Cruise, AVL Boost, GT Power, and other customized engineering software in order to solve the complex, multidisciplinary design problems that are at the forefront of optimization research and practice.
Isight is also offered as a model coordination and design optimization tool for our graduate-level Design Optimization course. It enables students to quickly integrate multiple engineering models from different software packages to solve system-level optimization problems. They are able to model multi-subsystem design problems and optimize the system within the span of a semester class. In addition, Isight allows the students to create DOEs, metamodels, optimization results, and verify models with only minimal changes within the software. These capabilities are critical for a beginning optimization student to understand the breadth of applications where design optimization can help their future studies and careers." [Read Less]
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Isight
A desktop product for creating flexible simulation process flows, consisting of a variety of applications, in order to automate the exploration of design alternatives and identification of optimal performance parameters.
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Add-on Components
The academic Isight Research Edition includes over 32 add-on components. These are an extension to the standard Isight library of components that provides interfaces to Abaqus FEA software, major third-party simulation applications, and a range of design exploration and optimization algorithms.
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Below are the key features you will find in Isight:
PROCESS INTEGRATION
Easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interface allows you to quickly create integrated simulation process flows. These process flows couple simulation programs regardless of discipline, programming language, or format.
DESIGN EXPLORATION
Drive toward better designs using the Isight expanded library of design drivers including:
- Optimizers: Pointer, NLPQL, MOGA
- Design of Experiments: Optimal Latin Hypercube, Orthogonal Arrays, Data File, etc.
- Monte Carlo Simulations: Including stochastic design improvement
- Quality Methods: Six Sigma and Taguchi Robust Design
- Approximations: Response surface models, radial basis functions, error analysis, range sampling, etc.
ANALYSIS & VISUALIZATION
Visualize design results in real time using Isight analysis and visualization capabilities including:
- Data Mining: Better understand design trade-offs by viewing the design space from multiple points of view
- Correlation Map: Understand and graph the correlations between parameter sets
- Visual Design Driver: Visualize approximations by interactively surfing the design space and searching for optimal designs.
| Leading universities use Isight, including Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Purdue University, Queen's University Belfast, and University of Texas at Austin. |
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