Mobile system for precise aero delivery with global reach network capability

This paper discusses the current status of the development of the mobile aerial delivery system to be further employed in a variety of different applications. High accuracy of the developed system enables its use in precision troop resupply, precise sensors placement, urban warfare reconnaissance and other similar operations. This paper overviews the overall system architecture and components of the developed aero delivery system itself and then proceeds with describing the current status of integrating it with an advanced deployment platform, unmanned aerial system, to achieve mobility and autonomy of operations. The paper also discusses some other systems in development pursuing similar goals and reviews some novel applications that become possible with the developed aerial delivery system

Multicriteria analysis of real-life engineering optimization problems: statement and solution

The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2005.01.028The majority of engineering problems are essentially multicriteria. These criteria are usually contradictory. That is why specialists experience significant difficulties in correctly stating engineering optimization problems, so designers often end up solving ill-posed problems. In general, it is impossible to reduce multicriteria problems to single-criterion ones. For the correct statement and solution of engineering optimization problems, a method called Parameter Space Investigation (PSI method) has been created and widely integrated into various fields of industry, science, and technology (e.g., design of the space shuttle, nuclear reactor, missile, automobile, ship, and metal-tool). In summary, the PSI method generates many feasible designs from which the so-called Pareto optimal ones (i.e. solutions which cannot be improved) are extracted. The PSI method can also be used to efficiently optimize models in a parallel mode, which is of great importance while solving high-dimensional multiparameter and multicriteria problems. The PSI method is implemented in the software package Multicriteria Optimization and Vector Identification (MOVI), a comprehensive system for multicriteria engineering optimization (design, identification, and control). This system allows optimization of many problems that until recently appeared intractable