Reliability-Based Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization

We propose to integrate Oregon State University (OSU)?s uncertainty propagation toolbox for OpenMDAO (OpenMDAO+UP) with Adventium Labs? Formal United System Engineering Development (FUSED) model integration framework to provide new capabilities for robust and reliability-based multidisciplinary design optimization. OpenMDAO+UP allows uncertainty to be systematically taken into account when optimizing complex system designs, while FUSED provides a framework that allows libraries of uncertainty propagation methods, multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization methods, and a variety of COTS engineering models to be flexibly combined. Our proposed Reliability-Based Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (RB-MDAO) will apply to the overall cyber-physical system, not just to individual components or within particular disciplines. It will reduce risk of development cost and schedule overrun, result in systems having lower operation and sustainment cost, and increase product resilience and utility.