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Multidisciplinary design optimization of underwater glider for improving endurance

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Underwater glider (UG) is widely applied for long-term ocean observation, the gliding range of which is mainly influenced by its design. In this paper, the design parameters that have obvious influence on the gliding range, including the buoyancy factor, compressibility of the pressure hull, hydrodynamic coefficients, and motion parameters, are selected based on the gliding range model of UG. Due to their complicate coupling relationship in the design of the UG, the multidisciplinary optimization (MDO) design framework integrating the collaborative optimization (CO) method and approximate model technology is adopted to optimize the key parameters by taking the gliding range as the optimization target. The results show that the optimization leads to an increase of the gliding range of Petrel-L as much as 83.3% when the hotel load is 0.5 W, which is verified by the sea trial. The optimization is applicable to other types of underwater gliders.

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This work was jointly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51722508, and 11902219) and National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0301100); Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (Grant Nos. 18JCQNJC05100 and 18JCJQJC46400); and Aoshan Talent Cultivation Program (Grant No. 2017ASTCP-OE01) of Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, China

    Shuxin Wang, Ming Yang, Wendong Niu, Yanhui Wang, Shaoqiong Yang, Lianhong Zhang & Jiajun Deng

  2. The Joint Laboratory of Ocean Observing and Detection, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, 266237, Shandong, China

    Shuxin Wang, Ming Yang, Wendong Niu, Yanhui Wang, Shaoqiong Yang, Lianhong Zhang & Jiajun Deng

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Wang, S., Yang, M., Niu, W. et al. Multidisciplinary design optimization of underwater glider for improving endurance. Struct Multidisc Optim 63, 2835–2851 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-021-02844-z

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