Mission and System Design of Air-Launching Rocket Using Multidisciplinary Optimization Approach

Abstract

Compared with the conventional ground rocket launching, air-launching has many advantages.

Multidisciplinary design modeling and optimizationfor satellite with maneuver capability

“…Later, a lot of improved MDO algorithms (Cramer et al 1994;Sobieszczanski-Sobieski 1989;Ilan et al 1994;Braun 1996;Jaroslaw et al 1998) were put forward, meanwhile several frame software like iSIGHT (Engineous-Software 2004), ModelCenter (PhoenixIntegration 2008), ModeFrontier (Esteco 2011) and HyperStudy (Altair 2009) were developed. Now MDO are applied to many engineering system optimization fields, including aerospace and mechanical engineering (Renaud and Gabriele 1993;Brown and Olds 2006;Choi et al 2006;Nobuhiro et al 2005;Yokoyama et al 2007;Blouin et al 2004). Spacecraft or satellite system design is a typical MDO problem which contains multiple subsystems and deals with different disciplinary analyses.…”

“…By introducing MDO method into satellite system design, the efficiency of design can be expected to improve and then powerful technical supports can be obtained, which means better performance, faster design process and lower cost. It has been reported that MDO methods were successfully applied to a series of aerospace engineering programs and made sufficiently benefits through the design technology (Choi et al 2006;Nobuhiro et al 2005;Yokoyama et al 2007;Blouin et al 2004;Braun et al 1997;Allison et al 2006). These researches showed that MDO is effective and efficient in dealing with the coupling among multi-subsystems.…”