An automated pipe-route planner in three dimensional plant layout design

The authors simulated a problem entitled ´the automated pipe route planner in three-dimensional plant layout design into a nonlinear programming model´ by using Rosenbrock´s rotating direction method for unconstrained optimization. In this method, the coordinate system is rotated in each stage of minimization in such a manner that the first axis is oriented towards the locally estimated direction of the valley and all the other axes are made mutually orthogonal and normal to the first axis. The proposed method of knowledge based route planning for pipes provides a tool for pipe route finding problems in a layout plan. The iterative algorithm to produce the optimal solution is presented.<>