Implementing a Decision Framework in SysML Integrating MDAO Tools

This article describes an implementation of a decision framework modeled in SysML that we can execute with two different parametric analyzers. One of those analyzers supplies the kind of cross‐tool and cross‐domain integration of simulation and analysis tools that engineers will require to implement model‐based design at large scales. The paper describes the decision framework and illustrates its implementation in SysML in the context of the design of a notional surveillance drone. The paper concludes with some observations about future directions and some of the difficulties that were met.