Robust Engineering for the Design of Resilient Manufacturing Systems

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

A Robust Control Design Technique for Discrete-Time Systems

A robust state feedback design subject to placement of the closed loop eigenvalues in a prescribed region of unit circle is presented. Quantitative measures of robustness and disturbance rejection are investigated. A stochastic optimization algorithm is used to effect trade-off between the free design parameters and to accomplish all the design criteria. A numerical example is given to illustra...

Engineering Resilient Space Systems

Decision Making for Robust Resilient Systems

Robust and resilient interconnected structures rely on decision procedures, both under uncertainty and multicriteria. In decision under uncertainty, we aim at finding a scoring procedure to determine an optimal decision without prior knowledge on the actual state of the world. In multicriteria decision making, the state of the world is known but we aim at ranking alternatives defined over a mul...

Tradespace Exploration for the Engineering of Resilient Systems

Tradespace exploration supports the Systems Engineering Technical Management Process of Decision Analysis by identifying compromises, revealing opportunities, and communicating the impacts of decisions across a system’s development lifecycle. Critical program decisions are made based on the outcomes of trades; trades being performed with multiple types and quantities of data coming out of tools...