C
ONTENTS
C
ONTENTS1
L
IST OFA
BBREVIATIONS3
L
IST OFS
YMBOLS5
A
BSTRACT10
S
TRESZCZENIE12
1 I
NTRODUCTION14
1.1 M
OTIVATION ANDO
BJECTIVES OF THE DISSERTATION19
1.2 O
UTLINE OF THED
ISSERTATION23
2
S
TATE-
OF-
THE-
A
RT25
2.1 T
HE VEHICLE DESIGN PROCESS AND MODELING TECHNIQUES26
2.2
M
ULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION31
2.2.1
S
INGLE-
OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM32
2.2.2
M
ULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION METHODS35
2.3
METAMODELS46
2.3.1
DESIGNOFEXPERIMENT47
2.3.2
M
ETHODS OF METAMODELS ESTIMATION52
2.4
MESHM
ORPHING57
3
F
ORMULATED METHOD OF OPTIMIZATION OF VEHICLES IN AUTOMOTIVEDESIGN PROCESS
70
4
A
VAILABLE PROGRAMMING TOOLS76
5
C
ASES
TUDIES81
5.1
C
AR BODY CONCEPT MODELING82
5.1.1
B
ASELINE MODEL DESCRIPTION83
5.1.2
M
ODEL-
BASED OPTIMIZATION APPROACH85
5.1.3
R
ESULTS104
5.1.4
U
PDATED CAR BODY TEST CASE111
5.2
U
RBAN BUS CONCEPT MODELING113
5.2.1
DEVELOPED URBAN BUS BASELINE MODEL115
5.2.2
M
ODEL-
BASED MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OFVEHICLE DYNAMICS