System-of-Systems Inspired Aircraft Sizing and Airline Resource Allocation via Decomposition

Mane, Muharrem; Crossley, William A.; Nusawardhana,

doi:10.2514/1.26333

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“…The simultaneous consideration of the design of an asset (here, aircraft), and its operations (here, allocations) as a comprehensive platform has been demonstrated to show potentially significant cost savings for airline, fractional ownership, and air taxi operations (Mane & Crossley, 2006, 2012Mane, Crossley, & Nusawardhana, 2007). The integrated perspective differs from the traditional perspectives where asset design (the aircraft) and operations (allocation of aircraft) are treated as decoupled facets of a platform.…”

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“…However, "fleetproductivity," as referred to in prior studies (Mane et al, 2007) is a metric that combines speed and weight of cargo transported into a single metric that serves as the problem objective. Our proposed future work seeks to provide a metric that adequately captures salient measures of productivity for the allocation sub-problem ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ=mêçÖê~ã= dê~Çì~íÉ=pÅÜççä=çÑ=_ìëáåÉëë=C=mìÄäáÅ=mçäáÅó -29 -k~î~ä=mçëíÖê~Çì~íÉ=pÅÜççä= to ensure a balanced representation of tradeoffs between fleet performance and fuel consumption.…”

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“…The decomposition approach addresses the issue of tractability of solving a monolithic, mixed discrete non-linear programming problem and has yielded better design solutions across a set of aviation applications, including commercial airlines, ^Åèìáëáíáçå=oÉëÉ~êÅÜ=mêçÖê~ã= dê~Çì~íÉ=pÅÜççä=çÑ=_ìëáåÉëë=C=mìÄäáÅ=mçäáÅó -4 -k~î~ä=mçëíÖê~Çì~íÉ=pÅÜççä= fractional management companies, and air taxi services (Mane & Crossley, 2006, 2012Mane et al, 2007). The motivation of these prior works in identifying cost and fuel saving characteristics of a new, yet-to-be-acquired aircraft bears similarity to the U.S. Air Force AMC problem.…”

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“…MINLPs are sometimes impossible to solve for even moderate-sized problems. However, the work here adopts a multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO; inspired subspace decomposition approach from prior literature; Mane et al, 2007) that breaks the monolithic MINLP problem of Equations 6-14 into a coordinated sequence of more tractable problems, as depicted in Figure 2.…”

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Platform Design for Fleet-Level Efficiency

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Davendralingam²,

Govindaraju³

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This research leverages techniques from the fields of multidisciplinary design optimization and operations research into an approach to improve energy efficiencyrelated defense acquisition decisions. The work focuses on the acquisition of new cargo aircraft for the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC), which is the largest consumer of fuel in the Department of Defense. The approach here extends prior work in fleet-level acquisition decisions from a commercial aviation context into the context of Air Mobility Command. The framework, with the abstractions and assumptions used, successfully considers the design requirements of the new aircraft to meet fleet-level metrics. The framework does this by using the new aircraft design requirements to describe that new aircraft's characteristics and then uses those characteristics to allocate the new aircraft, along with other existing aircraft, to meet fleet-level metrics. The approach begins to address uncertain cargo demand following scheduling-like constraints to represent typical AMC operations more closely. Fuel efficiency of the resulting fleet provides a metric for comparison of the effect of the new aircraft requirements. About the AuthorsWilliam Crossley is a professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, where he has been on the faculty since 1995. His research and teaching interests focus on optimization and design methods for aerospace systems, system of systems, design under uncertainty, and morphing aircraft.

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Section: Amc Fleet Allocation Including Design Of New Aircraftmentioning

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Platform Design for Fleet-Level Efficiency

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“…Systems are no longer studied separately but in the SoS environment, with the influence of other systems, which often lead to different or unexpected results in contrast with previous cases. In the field of aerospace, the concept of SoS has been applied to solve different problems, for instance, air strike [8,9], civilian transportation [10][11][12], maritime applications [13] and so on. SoS theory also plays an important role in aircraft design [14][15][16], because it gives aircraft designers new inspiration about aircraft design methods, especially in conceptual design phase.…”

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Design space exploration in aircraft conceptual design phase based on system-of-systems simulation

Tian¹,

Liu²,

Huang³

2015

International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences

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Design space exploration has been much neglected in aircraft conceptual design phase, which often leads to a waste of time and cost in design, manufacture and operation process. It is necessary to explore design space based on operational systemof-systems (SoS) simulation during the early phase for a competitive design. This paper proposes a methodology to analyze aircraft performance parameters in four steps: combination of parameters, object analysis, operational simulation, and keyparameters analysis. Meanwhile, the design space of an unmanned aerial vehicle applied in earthquake search and rescue SoS is explored based on this methodology. The results show that applying SoS simulation into design phase has important reference value for designers on aircraft conceptual design.

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Air Transportation Systems

Crossley

DeLaurentis

2014

Modeling and Simulation Support for System of Systems Engineering Applications

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System-of-Systems Inspired Aircraft Sizing and Airline Resource Allocation via Decomposition

Cited by 67 publications

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Platform Design for Fleet-Level Efficiency

Platform Design for Fleet-Level Efficiency

Design space exploration in aircraft conceptual design phase based on system-of-systems simulation

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