Streamlining Cross-Organizational Aircraft Development
Results from the AGILE Project
Prajwal Shiva Prakasha (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
F. Torrigiani (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
Jan-Niclas Walther (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
Huub Timmermans (Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR)
D. Rajpal (Aerospace Structures & Computational Mechanics)
Imco Gent (TU Delft - Flight Performance and Propulsion)
G. Rocca (TU Delft - Flight Performance and Propulsion)
M Voskuijl (Netherlands Defence Academy)
G.B. Cavadini (External organisation)
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Abstract
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 reduction of the lead time of 40% with respect to the
current state-of-the-art. 19 industry, research and academia partners from
Europe, Canada and Russia developed solutions to cope with the challenges of
collaborative design and optimization of complex products. In order to
accelerate the deployment of large-scale, collaborative multidisciplinary
design and optimization (MDO), a novel methodology, the so-called AGILE
Paradigm, has been developed. Furthermore, the AGILE project has developed and
released a set of open technologies enabling the implementation of the AGILE
Paradigm approach. The collection of all the technologies constitutes AGILE
Framework, which has been deployed for the design and the optimization of
multiple aircraft configurations. This paper focuses on the application of the
AGILE Paradigm on seven novel aircraft configurations, proving the achievement
of the project’s objectives.