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Reduction in aircraft emission is a main driver for the development of moreefficient aircraft and enabling technologies are reaching operational maturity.Aircraft manufacturers need an efficient product development process to capturethese emergent technologies and develop new aircraft concepts in order to staycompetitive. Presently, the aircraft development process is crossorganizational, and harnesses distributed, heterogeneous knowledge andexpertise. Large scale multidisciplinary studies, involving disciplinaryexperts and specific tools are required to evaluate different aircraftconcepts. These MultiDisciplinary Aircraft Optimization (MDAO) processes aredifficult to deploy as they involve cross-organizational collaboration andharmonization of processes, tools and even vocabulary. Moreover, difficultiesin collaborative decision making, reconfiguration and integration of newrequirements and competencies often precludes the development of an optimalsolution within the available time. To address these challenges, the AGILEproject is an effort within the European Union funded Horizon 2020 project toreduce aircraft development time by developing tools and processes that enableefficient, collaborative aircraft design. This paper presents the workperformed as part of the AGILE academy challenge where students were taskedwith developing and solving an aircraft MDAO problem using the AGILE toolchain.Each team consisted of students from various universities around the globe andhad expertise in multiple design domains. An MDAO study is presented thatutilizes the AGILE toolchain to investigate the feasibility of implementing anauxiliary solar power system on a baseline aircraft. The steps performed are:(1) definition of a multidisciplinary design problem, (2) development ofcollaborative workflow and (3) optimization using surrogate models. Through thecase study, a novel technology concept is investigated and the efficacy of theAGILE toolchain in facilitating a MDAO is analyzed.

Exploring Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Aircraft Optimization  through the AGILE Academy Challenge -- A case study for an aircraft auxiliary  solar power system