The Common Parametric Aircraft Configuration Schema (CPACS) is a data definition for the air transportation system. CPACS enables engineers to exchange information between their tools. It is therefore a driver for multi-disciplinary and multi-fidelity design in distributed environments. CPACS describes the characteristics of aircraft, rotorcraft, engines, climate impact, fleets and mission in a structured, hierarchical manner. Not only product but also process information is stored in CPACS. The process information helps in setting up workflows for analysis modules. Due to the fact that CPACS follows a central model approach, the number of interfaces is reduced to a minimum.
CPACS is available as Open Source and we encourage anyone to make use of it. If you are applying CPACS in a scientific environment and publish any related work, please cite the following artice:
M. Alder, E. Moerland, J. Jepsen and B. Nagel. Recent Advances in Establishing a Common Language for Aircraft Design with CPACS. Aerospace Europe Conference 2020, Bordeaux, France, 2020.
On November 18, we successfully kicked-off a new format of regular meetings concerning CPACS development. A group of 15 participants from university, research institutions and industry discussed how the meetings can be organized efficiently. We agreed on regular meetings at intervals of 13 weeks, in which general topics concerning CPACS …
Dear CPACS community,
we are happy to present CPACS 3.3 with a large feature list. Just check it out:
On May 31, CPACS developers and users met on a virtual stakeholder meeting to discuss a revision of the CPACS decks definition and floor structures. An already very mature proposal from the cabin department of the DLR Institute of System Architectures in Aeronautics served as a basis (see #674). In …
Dear CPACS community,
we are pleased to inform you that with the publication of the Release Candidate (RC), the release process of CPACS 3.3 now enters the final phase:
After the …
One result of the last stakeholder meetings is that we set up two working groups, one on the aeroLimitMaps (#687) and one on the new landingGears (#693) definition, to discuss the remaining issues in more detail.
We are looking forward to a lively participation. So feel free to contact us …
Spread over Jan. 20 and Feb. 11 2021, the stakeholder meeting on the upcoming CPACS 3.3 Relase candidate took place. It was particularly nice to see the large participation of the community from various research institutions, universities and industry. Among them were, for example, Airbus Defence & Space, Bauhaus Luftfahrt …
Over the past months, the CPACS community has been working on numerous enhancements to advance the common language for aircraft design to its next version. After combining the results of the individual working groups into a beta release, we would now like to continue the release process and kindly invite …
Over the past months, the CPACS community has been working on numerous enhancements (see Towards CPACS 3.3). We have now combined the work of all the working groups into a beta release in order to provide quick access to all changes in one schema:
As we are approaching the next CPACS release, I would like to present the major enhancements and adjustments we have been discussing over the last months. It should be emphasized that these are not yet final decisions and everyone is invited to participate in the current topics.
The initiators and …
An increasing amount of aircraft design projects focuses on sustainable and green aviation enabled by advanced system architectures. To reflect the needs of the required data exchange within these projects, an appropriate system parametrization in CPACS needs to be developed. For this purpose we would like to invite experts in …
