Methodological enhancements in MDO process investigated in the AGILE European project

Methodological enhancements in MDO process

investigated in the AGILE European project

T. Lefebvre

, N. Bartoli

, S. Dubreuil

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Onera, The French Aerospace Lab, Toulouse, France

M. Panzeri

, R. Lombardi

NOESIS Solutions N.V. Gaston Geenslaan 11, B4, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

P. Della Vecchia

, F. Nicolosi

University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy

P.D. Ciampa

DLR, Air Transportation Systems Institute, Hamburg, Germany

K. Anisimov

, A. Savelyev

TsAGI, Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, 140180, Russia

Nomenclature

AGILE = Aircraft 3rd Generation MDO for Innovative Collaboration of Heterogeneous Teams of Experts MDO = Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

DC = Design Campaign

SEGOMOE = Super Efficient Global Optimization based on Mixture Of Experts RSM = Response Surface Model

TLAR = Top Level Aircraft Requirements SOTA = State Of The Art

PIDO = Process Integration and Design Optimization

Abstract

This paper presents methodological investigations performed in research activities in the field of MDO in overall aircraft design in the ongoing EU funded research project AGILE. AGILE is developing the next generation of aircraft Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization processes, which targets significant reductions in aircraft development costs and time to market, leading to cheaper and greener aircraft solutions. The paper introduces the AGILE project structure and describes the achievements of the 1st year (Design Campaign 1) leading to a reference distributed MDO system. A focus is then made on the different novel optimization techniques studied during the 2nd year, all willing to ease the optimization of complex workflows, characterized by high degree of discipline interdependencies, high number of design variables in the context of

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Copyright © 2017 by T. Lefebvre, N. Bartoli, M. Panzeri, R. Lombardi, P. Della Vecchia, F. Nicolosi, P.D. Ciampa, K. Anisimov, A. Savelyev. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., with permission. AIAA AVIATION Forum