Construction of an integrated interface for design optimization of a combat vehicle system using maple symbolic computation

The number of detail design cases via commercial process integration and design optimization software using high-fidelity models is increasing. However, a system-level approach using a language-based model is required to design more complex systems, such as combat vehicles. Additionally, calculation costs can increase when calculating gradient through a commercial optimization algorithm using numerical computation. Moreover, optimization time can be wasted by the matrix computation process. Therefore, this paper constructs an integrated interface that focuses on concept design using a language-based model, performing efficient optimization by implementing symbolic computation. Design optimization of a combat vehicle system is performed to show the effectiveness of the integrated interface and symbolic computation, and the optimization time is highly reduced via symbolic computation.