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CIRA Expertise and Interestin the CRESCENDO Proposal Topics

Paolo Leoncini +390823623134

P.Leoncini@cira.itVirtual Reality & Vision Lab

Naples, November 30 2007

CENTRO ITALIANO RICERCHE AEROSPAZIALI

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AAT.2008.4.4.1.Integrated approach to full virtuality in design and

product development within the extended enterprise• Framework of A/C development process (concept to testing &

certif.)• Integrated engineering caps + enabling techs (e.g. IT)• Functionalities to integrate:

– Multi-physics analysis & optimization• Levels: whole A/C, systems, subsystems, components

– Design and decision support:• “in-context” interactive, knowledge-based• Management of uncertainty

– Design evolution control (pre-design to dev phases)• Concurrent Engineering

– Virtual testing (less/no physical testing), even for certification

• Demonstration using realistic aeronautic programs

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Considerations

• Evolution of Engineering & IT support to A/C project development:Fully digital (paperless, design-only)

Fully virtual (simulated - design, testing & certification)

• Stressing Concurrent Engineering & Digital Virtual Prototyping concepts:– Virtual prototyping, distributed design integration– Systems/subsystem integration verification– Pervasive concurrent multi-physics simulation

• Facilitating/promoting collaboration:– Multi-disciplinary distributed teams (distributed design integration)– Extended enterprise

• Knowledge at the base of the design and to support decisions

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CIRA Participation toPrevious Applicable Projects

• ENHANCE ENHanced AeroNautical Concurrent Engineering (1999÷2001)– 6.1 Innovative IT: The Virtual Manual (CIRA-Alenia Aeronautica)

Illustrator demonstrated @ ELAB Toulouse

• EDAVCOS Efficient Design and Verification of Composite Structures, Analysis / Test Correlation (1999÷2001)– Development and application of design tools from conceptual

design to certification

• ROSAA, Rotorcraft Simulations with Advanced Aerodynamics (1998-2000)– Development (CIRA) of a common European software environment

system based on the integration/encapsulation of mono-disciplinary tools aiming at improving the numerical prediction of aerodynamic, aeroacoustic and aeroelastic rotorcraft phenomena

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Applicable CIRA Capabilities

• Physics Modelling and Simulation • Product Date Exchange/Business Process/PLM• Virtual Reality

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Physics Modelling and SimulationFacts

• 20-years experience in physical modelling and simulation tools for component and full system analysis and optimization. Disciplines: Aerodynamics, CFD, Aeroacoustics, Structures, Aeroelasticity, Flight Mechanics, etc.

• Experience developed within many EC and National funded projects, by cooperating with European and National industry, Universities and SMEs.

• Analysis and design tools have been plugged into a MDO environment allowing multi-physics analysis and optimisation exploiting a distributed hardware network and remote access capability. A common environment to collect experimental and theoretical results in a database, and to make them accessible (visualise, analyse, download) is being developed adopting open source and/or commercial software.

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Physics Modelling and SimulationFacts 2/2

• Experience developed within many EC and National funded projects, by cooperating with European and National industry, Universities and SMEs.

• Development/use of Physical modelling and simulation tools for aircraft composites components and full system analysis and optimization.

• Analysis and design tools, taking into account damage tolerance and resistance, have been plugged into a Multi-objective Optimisation environment allowing performance-cost optimisation based on reliable Life cycle cost models

• Probabilistic analysis and design tools, taking into account damage tolerance and resistance, have been developed/used to account uncertainly in manufacturing and inspections

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Physics Modelling and SimulationContribution

• Definition of the new design framework (concurrent engineering paradigm) by specifying requirements imposed by the multi-physic analysis and optimization methods

• Validation of the new design framework within specific disciplines• Development and demonstration of the following technologies:

– Unified multi-physic analysis including, mechanical, thermal, aerodynamic, noise, aero/servoelasticity.

– Geometry Integration and Meshing, analysis;

– Common data standards & file formats;

– Validation technologies;

– Advanced analysis capabilities to support robust design and optimization of components and complex configuration.

– Multidisciplinary optimization based on innovative approaches to greatly reduce turn around time:• Euler/RANS methods based on Immersed Boundary Approach

– Multi-disciplinary optimization based on innovative simplified aero/structural solver able to take into account complex phenomena with a limited turn-around, and allowing a large number of analysis within an optimization loop:

• POD techniques to reduce the number of CFD/FEM analyses• Potential Panel methods integrated to RANS/URANS solver trough the AIC correction procedure (Giesing Force Approach and/or

pressure approach) to take in account both structural deformation and complex transonic/viscous aerodynamics effect within the optimization loop

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Physics Modelling and SimulationContribution 2/2

Development and demonstration of the following technologies:

• Multi-objective optimization including performance-cost evaluations based on reliable life cycle cost models

– Life cycle cost models accounting for repair costs

– Multi-objective optimization based on genetic algorithms

• Probabilistic design approach to take into account the uncertainly in manufacturing and inspections

– Simplified deterministic models for damage resistance, damage tolerance and strength evaluation embedded in a probabilistic environment

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Product Date Exchange/Business Process/PLM

Facts

• Innovative solutions of business improvement applied to the aeronautical maintenance and modification processes

• Improve integrated software systems PLM - Product Life-Cycle Management - communicate technical and logistics processes in a aeronautical maintenance context targeted to continuous improvement

• Design of integrated software solutions to increase the time-to-market advantage (continuous improvement of industrial processes)

– model the business process in the current scenario (As-Is model)– define process metrics (qualitative and quantitative parameters)– analysis of the As-Is scenario– plan the To-Be scenario as improvement of the As-Is scenario– target system uses resources, realizes business process performed by actors and

produces products/services that satisfy the customer necessities

• Elaboration of software solutions implement domain-specific taxonomies and ontologies to organize and present the company domain knowledge

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Product Date Exchange/Business Process/PLM

Contribution

• Requirement definition and design of IT system integration for the technical information management (technical documentation, manuals, procedures, BoM), and interface with the operational managerial information (job order, MBoM, operational activities scheduling)

• Methodological and technological services aimed at supporting the programme in the management of the lifecycle of aerospace products by means of:

– Selection of suitable business process modeling & evaluation methodologies

– Build up of interaction, process and workflow model– evaluation of the business process performance and the individualization of

possible bottleneck– requirement analysis and design of the architectural solution for the

HW/SW integration– development of prototype solutions

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Virtual RealityFacts

Applicable CIRA Capabilitiesto the CRESCENDO Proposal

• VR Simulation stressing first-person interaction– Physically-simulated realistic object behavior– credible hand-object interaction

• Application focus: Aircraft Maintenance Simulation– Design: maintainability checks and maintenance ergonomics

(design for maintainability) - bringing human cap’s into the design– Product Service: training

• Research topics:– Human-computer interface: natural gloveless hand detection– Augmented Reality: markerless 3D pose estimation– Collaboration in VE’s – common virtual workplace

• Under user experiments and industrial validation• CATIA CAD-VR tight integration

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Virtual RealityContribution

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• Improve the design for maintainability practice through VR-based Aircraft Maintenance simulation– first-person two-handed direct interaction– multi-person collaboration experiment in a common Virtual

Environment, even geographically distributed

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Applications

Glove-based direct hand interaction

Real-time rigid-body dynamics

CATIA CAD data source

Real-time shadows

Dynamic guiding joints

VR Aircraft Maintainability Checks

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Applications

The ROSAA Rotorcraft Multi-Physics Simulation Environment

Complex simulation processes via code network

Direct plug-in of specialist codes

Simulation library filled by the user with proprietary/licensed codes

Interfaces automatically invoked

Multiple visualizations windows Interactive/batch execution Several menus at different

levels Easy I/O file system

management

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Conclusions

• … CIRA is greatly interested in the CRESCENDO proposal

• CIRA scientific/technical background and research competences fit the needs of CRESCENDO proposal

• CIRA is looking for coordination with Italian major stakeholders to harmonize national contribution to CRESCENDO

• CRESCENDO will shape the future partnership of the European aerospace stakeholders and CIRA looks forward to joining effort in this new challenge

CIRA Expertise & Interestin the CRESCENDO Proposal