A multidisciplinary design optimization advisory system for aircraft design

This paper presents the status of development of an MDO advisory system, coupled to an optimization configurator for a process integration and design optimization (PIDO) system. This advisory system can support non-experts in the application of MDO by giving advice on the type of MDO architecture to use and assist in the implementation of the actual problem inside a PIDO system. Both the advisory system and optimization configurator are implemented by means of knowledge based technologies that allow for the inclusion of semantics to data and allow for semantic reasoning. An overview of the functionalities of the system and the background technology that is involved is presented in this paper. A use case is presented to illustrate part of the capabilities. This use case focuses on the (re)generation of (partial) MDO workflows. It is demonstrated that based on, user-specified, desired outputs only that part of a workflow that is relevant to these outputs can be automatically generated inside the PIDO system and executed.

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