28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-9.9.2

METHODOLOGY FOR THE DESIGN OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT PRODUCT FAMILIES

D. Freeman, D. W. Lim, E. Garcia, D. N. Mavris
Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA

Keywords: product family design, agent based simulation, data mining

This paper investigates a methodology to design a family of unmanned aircraft by leveraging product commonalities found using data mining on a generated database of designs. An agent-based modeling approach is integrated with system models to evaluate the effectiveness of the aircraft family in performing complex system of systems missions.

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