Towards the Design of Resilient Large-scale Engineering Systems

Towards the Analysis and Design of Large Scale Networked Systems

Large networks of human and machine systems have staggeringly complex properties. Many of these poorly understood and difficult to predict properties emerge from largescale interaction and may be positive or negative. Not only do we not understand how complex behavior arises from the interactions of the individual (human or machine) nodes of the network, but the properties of the nodes themselv...

A Variable Structure Observer Based Control Design for a Class of Large scale MIMO Nonlinear Systems

This paper fully discusses how to design an observer based decentralized fuzzy adaptive controller for a class of large scale multivariable non-canonical nonlinear systems with unknown functions of subsystems’ states. On-line tuning mechanisms to adjust both the parameters of the direct adaptive controller and observer that guarantee the ultimately boundedness of both the tracking error and tha...

Engineering Resilient Space Systems

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT OPTIMUM DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE STEEL FRAMES

Computational cost of metaheuristic based optimum design algorithms grows excessively with structure size. This results in computational inefficiency of modern metaheuristic algorithms in tackling optimum design problems of large scale structural systems. This paper attempts to provide a computationally efficient optimization tool for optimum design of large scale steel frame structures to AISC...

Resilient State Management in Large Scale Networks

This paper describes, briefly, ongoing research on resource reservation state management, including research motivations and initial design.