Comparison of Multi-Fidelity Approaches for Military Vehicle Design

This paper overviews the efforts of a technical team within the NATO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel to apply multi-fidelity methods to vehicle design. The objectives of the team are to understand the potential benefits of multi-fidelity methods in vehicle design and to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of different multi-fidelity methods using a common benchmark suite. Through this effort, the team hopes to initiate a community dialogue that will help transition the use of multi-fidelity techniques to the efficient study of configurations more representative of fielded systems. Context is given for other papers contributed by team members to this Special Session on Multi-Fidelity Methods for Vehicle Applications sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee.