AeroAgent: A Vision-Physics-Decision Framework for Aerodynamic Vehicle Design

Ye Liu, Shouyi Liu, Huiyu Yang, Jianghang Gu, Wenhao Fan, Zhongxin Yang, Ding Wang, Simeng Chen, Zirun Jiang, Yuanwei Bin, Shiyi Chen, Yuntian Chen; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, pp. 11694-11703

Modern generative models can propose striking 3D vehicle shapes from text and images, but turning these sketches into aerodynamically efficient, regulation compliant designs still requires weeks of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and manual iteration. As a result, fast 3D generation without trustworthy physics in the loop does little to reduce end-to-end design time. We study how an AI agent can close this loop under a strict CFD budget. We introduce AeroAgent, a vision-physics-decision framework built around a single 3D, editable surface representation for vehicle shapes. A vision module turns text and 2D references into diverse, standardized 3D candidates and supports image-level edits. A physics module, AeroFormer is a geometry-guided Transformer surrogate trained on a large-scale vehicle aerodynamics dataset of roughly 50k CFD simulations; three task-specific heads predict drag Cd, surface pressure, and velocity fields on shared 3D grids. A decision module encodes regulatory size limits and aesthetic constraints as feasibility tests, uses prototype priors and surrogate sensitivities to guide free-form deformation edits, and runs a budget-aware propose evaluate refine loop in which only the final top K shapes are confirmed by high-fidelity CFD. In extensive experiments across five common vehicle classes, running only five propose evaluate refine iterations per vehicle reduces drag by an average of 2-12% and cuts high-fidelity CFD calls by 50-80% compared to baseline workflows, while preserving or improving styling quality.