15 - Guest lectures
A CASE STUDY OF CONTEXT OPERATIONS WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR THE SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE DESIGN OF A HEAVY SAR UAV
P. Krus, Sweden; V. Kaster Marini, Sweden
The complexity in developing modern aircraft systems challenges design engineers on the synthesis and devel-rnopment of system architecture models that are supportive to the integration task. This contribution introducesrna framework of formal operations for assembling context in aircraft systems engineering suported by largernlanguage models (LLMs). To demonstrate the framework in operation, a case study is carried out with the taskrnof modelling the component architecture design for a heavy search-and-rescue UAV. The context workload isrnassembled in four treatments with requesting at five separate LLMs to generate a system architecture modelrnof the UAV. The responses provide examples of possible SAR UAV architecture configurations, and enable thernvalidation of model codeblocks on codeblock length and element counts. The case study approach brings uprnthe essential role of exemplars as convergence element to balance the diverging effect of preceding context,rnand the role of modelling validation methodologies to improve the outcomes from LLMs to speeding up thernmodelling tasks in aircraft architecture design.
DOI: 10.71945/icas2026_1049