Multidisciplinary design of a small satellite launch vehicle using particle swarm optimization

Multidisciplinary design of a small satellite launch vehicle using particle swarm optimization

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Article ID: iaor201113526
Volume: 44
Issue: 6
Start Page Number: 773
End Page Number: 784
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Journal: Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Authors: , ,
Keywords: optimization, design, programming: quadratic
Abstract:

In the present paper, particle swarm optimization, a relatively new population based optimization technique, is applied to optimize the multidisciplinary design of a solid propellant launch vehicle. Propulsion, structure, aerodynamic (geometry) and three‐degree of freedom trajectory simulation disciplines are used in an appropriate combination and minimum launch weight is considered as an objective function. In order to reduce the high computational cost and improve the performance of particle swarm optimization, an enhancement technique called fitness inheritance is proposed. Firstly, the conducted experiments over a set of benchmark functions demonstrate that the proposed method can preserve the quality of solutions while decreasing the computational cost considerably. Then, a comparison of the proposed algorithm against the original version of particle swarm optimization, sequential quadratic programming, and method of centers carried out over multidisciplinary design optimization of the design problem. The obtained results show a very good performance of the enhancement technique to find the global optimum with considerable decrease in number of function evaluations.

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