Modelers often rely on robustness analysis, the search for predictions common to several independent models. Robustness analysis has been characterized and championed by Richard Levins and William Wimsatt, who see it as central to modern theoretical practice. The practice has also been severely criticized by Steven Orzack and Elliott Sober, who claim that it a non-empirical form of confirmation...

in this paper, stability analysis of walking gaits and robustness analysis are developed for a five-link and four-actuator biped robot. stability conditions are derived by studying unactuated dynamics and using the poincarã© map associated with periodic walking gaits. a stable gait is designed by an optimization process satisfying physical constraints and stability conditions. also, considering...

This study aims to discuss the use of robustness analysis in evaluation and selection the strategies of an organization based on a matrix approach. The proposed technique can overcome the weakness of the robustness analysis model related to reviewing a few future scenarios and also, make it possible to in a short time include the ideas of the decision makers who participate in the strategic pla...

the efficiency and robustness of reliability methods are two important factors in first order reliability method (form). the conjugate choice control (ccc) and directional chaos control method (dcc) were developed to improve the robustness and efficiency of form formula using the stability transformation method. in this paper, the ccc and dcc methods are applied for reliability analysis of a co...