Knowledge architecture supporting the next generation of MDO in the AGILE paradigm

After almost three decades of evolution, it is not yet possible to apply MDO in collaborative projects within large, heterogeneous and distributed teams of experts, whilst nowadays necessary for the development of any complex product. The H2020 project AGILE took the challenge of devising a novel paradigm to swiftly set up and deploy large...

Agile MDAO Systems: A Graph-based Methodology to Enhance Collaborative Multidisciplinary Design

The need to continuously design better aircraft is challenging on multiple fronts: the existing tube-and-wing aircraft are difficult to improve further, while more creative configurations prove more cumbersome to design due to the lack of empirical knowledge and the (usually) more highly integrated components. Multidisciplinary Design Analysis...

Streamlining Cross-Organizational Aircraft Development: Results from the AGILE Project

The research and innovation AGILE project developed the next generation of aircraft Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization processes, which target significant reductions in aircraft development costs and time to market, leading to more cost-effective and greener aircraft solutions. The high level objective is the...

Formulation and integration of MDAO systems for collaborative design: A graph-based methodological approach

This paper proposes a novel methodology and its software implementation, called KADMOS (Knowledge- and graph-based Agile Design for Multidisciplinary Optimization System), to increase the agility of design teams in collaborative Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO). Agility here refers to the ease and flexibility to...

Graph-based algorithms and data-driven documents for formulation and visualization of large MDO systems

A new system is presented that enables the visualization of large multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) problems and their solution strategy. It was developed within the scope of the European project AGILE. In AGILE, collaborative MDO is performed in large, heterogeneous teams of experts by solving MDO problems using a collection of...

MDO framework for university research collaboration: AGILE academy initiatives & outcomes

AGILE Project is developing the 3^rd generation MDO processes, which will support the development of the next generation aerospace products. The establishment of effective collaborative design methodologies, is currently acknowledged as the key enabler for future product development processes. At the same time, the need to introduce...

CMDOWS: a proposed new standard to store and exchange MDO systems

This paper proposes a new format to store and exchange multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) systems. Here, the generic term MDO system refers to the set of disciplinary tools, their exchanged data and process connections that, all together, define an MDO computational setup. In the process leading to the formal specification of such a...

A critical look at design automation solutions for collaborative MDO in the AGILE paradigm

This paper presents a critical discussion on the automated problem formulation and workflow creation approach developed within the European project AGILE to support and accelerate the setup of aircraft MDO workflows in a large, heterogeneous team of experts. The developed framework is based on a methodological approach, called the AGILE...

A clustered and surrogate-based MDA use case for MDO scenarios in AGILE project

In this paper methodological investigations regarding an innovative Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization (MDO) approach for conceptual aircraft design are presented. These research activities are part of the ongoing EU-funded research project AGILE. The next generation of aircraft MDO processes is developed in AGILE, which targets...

A Fully Automated Chain from MDAO Problem Formulation to Workflow Execution

In this paper, a methodology to connect the multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization (MDAO) problem formulation tool KADMOS and the commercial Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) platform Optimus is presented. This capability has been developed in the context of the EU project AGILE. The aim of this development is to...

OpenLEGO demonstration: A link between AGILE and OpenMDAO

Recent developments in MDO system formulation: KADMOS and CMDOWS

Composing MDAO symphonies: Graph-based generation and manipulation of large multidisciplinary systems

Knowledge architecture supporting collaborative MDO in the AGILE paradigm

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