Progress from artificial intelligence to wing structural design optimization

The year 2020 had important software releases from the multidisciplinary design optimization community. In Mar, NASA released Version 3 of OpenMDAO, an open-source, high-performance computing platform for systems analysis and multidisciplinary optimization, with additional updates published monthly. Version 3 introduces changes to the software interface that improve the accessibility and usability of OpenMDAO. In Feb, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed an optimization method for the deflection of incoming asteroids with destructive potential for Earth using multistage mission campaigns. Also this year, the US Air Force Research Laboratory Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center contracted program EXPEDITE, short for Expanded MDO for Effectiveness Based Design Technologies, executed by Lockheed Martin, began extending multidisciplinary design optimization beyond engineering quantities (i.e., range, drag) to consider mission effectiveness metrics as response functions.