Technology Identification, Evaluation, Selection, and Optimization of a HALE Solar Aircraft

Technology Identification, Evaluation, and Selection for Commercial Transport Aircraft

Company and Government clearance, as appropriate, is solely the responsibility of the author. Opinions expressed in technical papers or in discussions at meetings are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Society. ABSTRACT This paper outlines a comprehensive, structured, and robust methodology for decision making in the early phases of aircraft design. The proposed app...

A Methodology for Technology Identification, Evaluation, and Selection in Conceptual and Preliminary Aircraft Design

NPGA for Aircraft Technology Selection Process

Design of any complex system entails many objectives to reach and constraints to satisfy. This multi–objective nature of the problem ensures that the technology solution is always a compromise between conflicting objectives. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of Niched Pareto genetic algorithm as a relatively fast and straightforward method for obtaining technology sets...

A Decision Tree for Technology Selection of Nitrogen Production Plants

Nitrogen is produced mainly from its most abundant source, the air, using three processes: membrane, pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and cryogenic. The most common method for evaluating a process is using the selection diagrams based on feasibility studies. Since the selection diagrams are presented by different companies, they are biased, and provide unsimilar and even controversial results. I...

The Hybrid Algorithm of Biogeography Based Optimization and Clone Selection for Sensors Selection of Aircraft

Biogeography-based optimization algorithm(BBO) is a new kind of optimization algorithm based on Biogeography. It mimics the migration strategy of animals to solve the problem of optimization. In this paper, the clone selection strategy is combined with biogeography for solving the problem of sensors selection of aircraft. It is compared with other classical nature inspired algorithms. The compa...