Multidisciplinary design optimization for a combat vehicle coupling between firing and mobility

Abstract

To design a combat vehicle, various performances such as firing, mobility and survivability, etc. should be considered. Furthermore, since these performances relate to each other, design technique which can treat a coupled system should be adopted to design the combat vehicle. In this paper, we make a formulation of multidisciplinary design optimization for the combat vehicle considering firing, mobility performances and a coupled performance. The formulation can be written as follows: