The design pipeline.
Mission specification to buildable airframe: one automated multidisciplinary chain. MORPH (synthesis) → ATLAS (characterization) → HELM (control synthesis).
Mission spec
payload · endurance · stall · AUW · span
MORPH optimize
analytical → XFoil → AVL · genetic + gradient, trimmed cruise
OML as control nodes
chord · sweep · twist · dihedral at spanwise stations
Fair & loft
watertight solid · CAD / CFD-ready
ATLAS
envelope · polars · linear models
What comes out
- Optimized outer mold line plus a full design report — mass, CG, inertia, propulsion operating point, constraint ledger — per candidate configuration.
- Watertight STEP/STL solid, buildable by construction.
- ATLAS characterization: trimmed drag polars, stability and control derivatives, flight envelope.
- ATLAS linear models — the hand-off to autopilot tuning (HELM).
No new physics: deliberate pedigree
The pipeline orchestrates decades-validated methods — viscous airfoil analysis, vortex-lattice aerodynamics, genetic and gradient optimization, RANS CFD — into one automated co-design loop, with engineering judgement gating each increase in fidelity. The innovation is the integration.
The digital thread
The characterized design carries its aerodynamic and stability model with it — so the aircraft flies in SimOS before it exists.