Publications

Publications

Priya P. Pillai, Edward Burnell, Xiqing Wang, and Maria C. Yang. Effects of Robust Convex Optimization on Early-Stage Design Space Exploratory Behavior. code
Edward Burnell, Nicole B. Damen, and Warren Hoburg. GPkit: a Human-Centered Approach to Convex Optimization in Engineering Design. code
Berk Ozturk and Ali Saab. Optimal Aircraft Design Decisions Under Uncertainty via Robust Signomial Programming. code
Arthur Brown and Wesley Harris. A Vehicle Design and Optimization Model for On-Demand Aviation. code
Michael Burton and Warren Hoburg. Solar-Electric and Gas Powered, Long-Endurance UAV Sizing via Geometric Programming. code
Martin York, Berk Ozturk, Edward Burnell and Warren Hoburg. Efficient Aircraft Multidisciplinary Design Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis via Signomial Programming. AIAA Journal, 2018. code.
Philippe Kirschen and Warren Hoburg. The Power of Log Transformation: A Comparison of Geometric and Signomial Programming with General Nonlinear Programming Techniques for Aircraft Design Optimization. AIAA SciTech, San Diego, CA, January 2018. code.
Philippe Kirschen, Martin York, Berk Ozturk and Warren Hoburg. Application of Signomial Programming to Aircraft Design. Journal of Aircraft, 2017. code.
Martin York, Warren Hoburg, and Mark Drela. Turbofan Engine Sizing and Tradeoff Analysis via Signomial Programming. Journal of Aircraft, 2017. code.

Berk Ozturk, Michael Burton, Ostin Zarse, Warren Hoburg, Mark Drela, and John Hansman. Design of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Long-Endurance Communication Support. 18th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Denver, CO, June 2017.

Warren Hoburg, Philippe Kirschen, and Pieter Abbeel. Data fitting with geometric-programming-compatible softmax functions. Optimization and Engineering, 2016. code

Philippe Kirschen, Edward Burnell, and Warren Hoburg. Signomial Programming Models for Aircraft Design. 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting San Diego, CA, Jan 2016.

Warren Hoburg and Pieter Abbeel. Geometric programming for aircraft design optimization. AIAA Journal, 52(11):2414-2426, 2014.

Warren Hoburg and Pieter Abbeel. Fast Wind Turbine Design via Geometric Programming. 9th AIAA MDO Specialist Conference, Boston, MA, April 2013.

Warren Hoburg and Pieter Abbeel. Geometric Programming for Aircraft Design Optimization. 8th AIAA MDO Specialist Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2012.

Technical Reports

Max Opgenoord, Brian Cohen, Warren Hoburg. Comparison of Algorithms for Including Equality Constraints in Signomial Programming.

Theses

Berk Ozturk. Conceptual Engineering Design and Optimization Methodologies using Geometric Programming. Master’s Thesis. Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT. 2018.

Martin York. Turbofan Engine Sizing and Tradeoff Analysis via Signomial Programming. Master’s Thesis. Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT. 2017.

Cody Karcher. A Heuristic for Including Black Box Analysis Tools into a Geometric Programming Formulation. Master’s Thesis. Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT. 2017.

Philippe Kirschen. Signomial Programming for Aircraft Design. Master’s Thesis. Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT. 2016.

Warren Hoburg. Aircraft Design Optimization as a Geometric Program. Ph.D. thesis, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2013.

Foundational publications by other groups

S. Boyd, S.-J. Kim, L. Vandenberghe, and A. Hassibi. A tutorial on geometric programming. Optimization and Engineering, 8(1):67-127, 2007.