Abstract The AGILE project has developed the next generation of aircraft Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization processes providing significant reductions in aircraft development costs and time to market - ultimately leading to more cost-effective and greener aircraft solutions. A novel product development methodology is formulated, enabling collaborative, large scale design and optimization processes. The main elements enabling the developed “AGILE Paradigm” are the Knowledge Architecture and the Collaborative Architecture. The Knowledge Architecture formalizes setting up the product development process. It guides the engineers in formulating the design problem and choosing the appropriate solution strategy. This paper focuses on the Collaborative Architecture, which at its turn formalizes the way in which the involved agents interact within the product development process and enables cross-organizational and cross-the-nation integration of design competences. The principles of the architecture are of a non-intrusive nature and allow legacy processes to be connected in fully automated cross-organization collaborative design workflows. Within the project, it is used to seamlessly integrate the capabilities of nineteen project partners located in nine different countries. A realistic aircraft design use case – addressing an automated systems-of-systems analysis involving the design competences of multiple project partners – demonstrates a working implementation of the Collaborative Architecture. The effective interconnection of simulation capabilities between organizations allows the agents to spend more time on creative, knowledge-intensive design tasks - opening new possibilities for collaboratively resolving the future challenges faced by the aerospace and other industries.

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在 AGILE 范式中支持下一代 MDAO 的协作架构

摘要 AGILE 项目开发了下一代飞机多学科设计和优化流程，显着降低了飞机开发成本和上市时间——最终导致更具成本效益和更环保的飞机解决方案。制定了一种新颖的产品开发方法，支持协作、大规模的设计和优化过程。支持开发的“敏捷范式”的主要元素是知识架构和协作架构。知识架构使产品开发过程的建立正式化。它指导工程师制定设计问题并选择合适的解决方案策略。本文重点介绍协作架构，这反过来正式确定了所涉及的代理在产品开发过程中的交互方式，并使设计能力的跨组织和跨国家整合成为可能。该架构的原则是非侵入性的，允许在完全自动化的跨组织协作设计工作流中连接遗留流程。在项目中，它用于无缝集成位于九个不同国家的十九个项目合作伙伴的能力。一个现实的飞机设计用例——解决涉及多个项目合作伙伴设计能力的自动化系统分析——展示了协作架构的工作实施。