---
title: 'Design Exploration & Optimisation'
---

Technical documentation of the tools & methods explored by the Design Exploration & Optimisation (DEO) team.

## Introduction

What?
Why?
When?
Who?
Where?

## [Workflow](workflow/index)

[![deo-flowchart-detailed](../_static/images/deo_flowchart_detailed.svg)](workflow/index)

## Tools
### [Optimisation & Exploration](tools/optimisation_and_exploration/index)

```{gallery-grid}

- header: "{fas}`toolbox;pst-color-primary` Overview"
  content: "Overview and comparison of the various tools."
  website: "tools/optimisation_and_exploration/index.html"
- header: "![icon](_static/images/tunny_icon.ico)  Tunny"
  content: Constrained single- and multi-objective optimisation with performance dashboard and phenotype storage.
  website: "tools/optimisation_and_exploration/tunny.html"
- header: "![icon](_static/images/opossum_icon.png)  Opossum"
  content: "Single- and multi-objective optimisation with performance explorer."
  website: "tools/optimisation_and_exploration/opossum.html"
- header: "![icon](_static/images/panda_icon.png)  Panda"
  content: "Constrained (single- and) multi-objective optimisation with design explorer tools."
  website: "tools/optimisation_and_exploration/panda.html"
```

### [Data Management](tools/data_management/index)

```{gallery-grid}

- header: "![icon](_static/images/speckle_icon.ico) Speckle"
  content: "Speckle"
  website: "tools/data_management/speckle.html"
- header: "![icon](_static/images/tt_toolbox_icon.png) TT Toolbox"
  content: "Thornton Tomasetti Toolbox"
  website: "tools/data_management/tt_toolbox.html"
- header: "![icon](_static/images/hops_icon.png) Hops"
  content: "Hops"
  website: "tools/data_management/hops.html"
```

### [Visualisation and Selection](tools/visualisation_and_selection/index)

```{gallery-grid}

- header: "{fas}`chart-simple;pst-color-primary`  Overview"
  content: "Overview of the various tools."
  website: "tools/visualisation_and_selection/index.html"
- header: "![icon](_static/images/ellipse_icon.png)  Ellipse"
  content: "Ellipse"
  website: "tools/visualisation_and_selection/ellipse.html"
- header: "![icon](_static/images/thread_icon.png)  Thread"
  content: "Thread"
  website: "tools/visualisation_and_selection/thread"
- header: "![icon](_static/images/design_explorer_icon.png)"
  content: "Design explorer"
  website: "tools/visualisation_and_selection/design_explorer.html"

```

## Case Studies

```{gallery-grid}
:grid-columns: 1 1 1 2

- header: "Data Cables"
  content: "Optimise telecommunication room (TR) placement in a floor plan to minimise the total length of all data cables going from the TRs to all the rooms."
  image: "_static/images/case_study_data_cables.png"
  website: "case_studies/data_cables.html"

- header: "Parking"
  content: "Optimise telecommunication room (TR) placement in a floor plan to minimise the total length of all data cables going from the TRs to all the rooms."
  image: "_static/images/case_study_parking.png"
  website: "case_studies/parking.html"

- header: "Multidisciplinary Proof of Concept"
  content: "Proof of concept model to perform multidisciplinary DEO where a coordination model is connected to discipline-specific GH models using Hops."
  image: "_static/images/case_study_multidisciplinary_poc.png"
  website: "case_studies/multidisciplinary_poc.html"
```

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
:hidden:

introduction/index
workflow/index
tools/index
case_studies/index
learning_path/index
```