  Designing a mechatronic system is a complex task since it deals with a high
number of system components with multi-disciplinary nature in the presence of
interacting design objectives. Currently, the sequential design is widely used
by designers in industries that deal with different domains and their
corresponding design objectives separately leading to a functional but not
necessarily an optimal result. Consequently, the need for a systematic and
multi-objective design methodology arises. A new conceptual design approach
based on a multi-criteria profile for mechatronic systems has been previously
presented by the authors which uses a series of nonlinear fuzzy-based
aggregation functions to facilitate decision-making for design evaluation in
the presence of interacting criteria. Choquet fuzzy integrals are one of the
most expressive and reliable preference models used in decision theory for
multicriteria decision making. They perform a weighted aggregation by the means
of fuzzy measures assigning a weight to any coalition of criteria. This enables
the designers to model importance and also interactions among criteria thus
covering an important range of possible decision outcomes. However,
specification of the fuzzy measures involves many parameters and is very
difficult when only relying on the designer's intuition. In this paper, we
discuss three different methods of fuzzy measure identification tailored for a
mechatronic design process and exemplified by a case study of designing a
vision-guided quadrotor drone. The results obtained from each method are
discussed in the end.
