combine

If your model contains some parameters you want to sample across a grid and others from which you want to draw random samples, you can combine gridded and random parameter spaces.

This example uses the sdoCSTR model discussed in detail in Design Exploration Using Parameter Sampling (Code). Open the model.

mdl = "sdoCSTR";
open_system(mdl)

Among the parameters in this model are the reactor cylinder area A, height h, and the feed temperature and concentration, FeedCon0 and FeedTemp0. Suppose that you want to explore the sensitivity of your design constraint to these four parameters, sampling across a grid of A and h values while drawing FeedCon0 and FeedTemp0 from random distributions.

First, define a gridded parameter space for A and h. Use sdo.getParameterFromModel to create an array of param.Continuous objects representing A and h. Then, specify values for the grid, and create the parameter space.

pg = sdo.getParameterFromModel(mdl,{'A','h'});
Avals = {0.2 0.6 1.0 1.4 1.8};
hvals = {0.5 1.5 2.5};
gspace = sdo.GriddedSpace(pg,{Avals,hvals});

Next, define a random parameter space for FeedCon0 and FeedTemp0. Create an array of param.Continuous objects and specify the probability distributions for each parameter. For this example, assign both variables a normal distribution where the mean is the current parameter value in the model and the variance is 5% of the mean. Then, create the parameter space.

pr = sdo.getParameterFromModel(mdl,{'FeedCon0','FeedTemp0'});
distCon  = makedist('normal',pr(1).Value,0.05*pr(1).Value); 
distTemp = makedist('normal',pr(2).Value,0.05*pr(2).Value);

rspace = sdo.ParameterSpace(pr);
rspace = setDistribution(rspace,'FeedCon0',distCon);
rspace = setDistribution(rspace,'FeedTemp0',distTemp);

Finally, combine the two parameter spaces into a new parameter space.

cspace = combine(gspace,rspace)

cspace = 
  GriddedSpace with properties:

    ParameterValues: {{1x5 cell}  {1x3 cell}  [1x1 prob.NormalDistribution]  [1x1 prob.NormalDistribution]}
              Notes: []
             Spaces: {[1x1 sdo.GriddedSpace]  [1x1 sdo.ParameterSpace]}
     ParameterNames: {'A'  'h'  'FeedCon0'  'FeedTemp0'}
            Options: [1x1 sdo.GriddingOptions]

The combined space is represented by a sdo.GriddedSpace object. The property cspace.Spaces shows that cspace contains the two subspaces, one gridded space and one random parameter space. The property cspace.ParameterValues shows that the space includes the finite grid for A and H, and the probability distributions for the random variables FeedCon0 and FeedTemp0.

You can now use sdo.sample to draw sets of sampled values from the combined space. By default, the samples are exhaustive over the grid, meaning every possible combination of grid values is included in the sampled set. Suppose that for each combination, you want to sample the random parameters ten times. Provide that value to sdo.sample in the NumSample argument.

cspace.Options.Method = 'exhaustive';
NumSample = 10;
evalues = sdo.sample(cspace,NumSample)

evalues=150×4 table
     A      h     FeedCon0    FeedTemp0
    ___    ___    ________    _________

    0.2    0.5     10.269      275.09  
    0.6    0.5     10.269      275.09  
      1    0.5     10.269      275.09  
    1.4    0.5     10.269      275.09  
    1.8    0.5     10.269      275.09  
    0.2    1.5     10.269      275.09  
    0.6    1.5     10.269      275.09  
      1    1.5     10.269      275.09  
    1.4    1.5     10.269      275.09  
    1.8    1.5     10.269      275.09  
    0.2    2.5     10.269      275.09  
    0.6    2.5     10.269      275.09  
      1    2.5     10.269      275.09  
    1.4    2.5     10.269      275.09  
    1.8    2.5     10.269      275.09  
    0.2    0.5     10.917      339.77  
      ⋮

Here, for each of the fifteen combinations of (A, h) values, sdo.sample assigns ten random values for (Feedcon0, FeedTemp0), resulting in 150 sets of (A, h, FeedCon0, FeedTemp0) samples.

You can also have sdo.sample choose only one random (FeedCon0,FeedTemp0) value for each (A,h) pair. To do so, set the sampling method of cspace to sequential. Note that in this case, you created cspace using a gridded space gspace that had gspace.Options.Method = 'exhaustive'. Thus, when you sample cspace, the (A,h) pairs are still exhaustive.

cspace.Options.Method = 'sequential';
svalues = sdo.sample(cspace)

svalues=15×4 table
     A      h     FeedCon0    FeedTemp0
    ___    ___    ________    _________

    0.2    0.5     9.5682      296.27  
    0.6    0.5     10.039         273  
      1    0.5     9.3929      284.05  
    1.4    0.5     9.4432      279.34  
    1.8    0.5     9.9966      329.67  
    0.2    1.5     10.766      285.92  
    0.6    1.5     9.6152      306.03  
      1    1.5     10.186      292.16  
    1.4    1.5     9.8872      308.11  
    1.8    1.5     10.559      283.72  
    0.2    2.5     9.4555      274.32  
    0.6    2.5     10.016      274.02  
      1    2.5     10.276       302.2  
    1.4    2.5      10.55      292.38  
    1.8    2.5     10.772      292.11  

Use values with sdo.evalute to evaluate your design objectives at each of the sampled parameter values. For instance, if you have defined a cost function design, you can use values in a call to sdo.evluate as follows.

[yR,infoR] = sdo.evaluate(@design,p,values);