Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753801
Edgar M. Perez, Abhijit Majumdar, P. Benavidez, M. Jamshidi
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been an issue in robotics, since AI is based on iterative algorithms. In general, simulations of physical models are used to show the outcome of learning algorithms or show proof of concepts. Since models are generated based on parameter estimations of training data, it is crucial to iterate a significant amount of times in order to model an accurate classification function. Thus, it would take a substantial amount of time for a robot to generate such a function. In this research, an implementation of reinforced learning will be applied on a unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) learning simulated model that will be translated into a physical UGV using Robot Operating System (ROS) to test performance of the given model.
{"title":"Implementation of Reinforcement Learning Simulated Madel on Physical UGV Using Robot Operating System for Continual Learning","authors":"Edgar M. Perez, Abhijit Majumdar, P. Benavidez, M. Jamshidi","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753801","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) has been an issue in robotics, since AI is based on iterative algorithms. In general, simulations of physical models are used to show the outcome of learning algorithms or show proof of concepts. Since models are generated based on parameter estimations of training data, it is crucial to iterate a significant amount of times in order to model an accurate classification function. Thus, it would take a substantial amount of time for a robot to generate such a function. In this research, an implementation of reinforced learning will be applied on a unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) learning simulated model that will be translated into a physical UGV using Robot Operating System (ROS) to test performance of the given model.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131684735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753856
Melanie L. Grande, D. DeLaurentis
With the entrance of space tourism ventures to the industry, there is a need for a dialogue and examples for tourism concepts to be approached with both system-of-systems (SoS) and optimization methods. The SoS definition and framework is essential for identifying the multi-faceted resources, operations, policies, and economics, as well as stakeholders, disruptors, and drivers that impact the SoS. This paper will present a design tool for an in-orbit hotel and associated vehicles/operations. An optimization approach is presented as useful for generating and analyzing architecture alternatives based on metrics of importance, such as affordability. The dialogue on these topics and the framework provided by the initial constructs presented by this paper should be valuable to the space tourism market and other new ventures in the space industry.
{"title":"SoS Characterization and Optimization Approaches for an In-Space Hotel","authors":"Melanie L. Grande, D. DeLaurentis","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753856","url":null,"abstract":"With the entrance of space tourism ventures to the industry, there is a need for a dialogue and examples for tourism concepts to be approached with both system-of-systems (SoS) and optimization methods. The SoS definition and framework is essential for identifying the multi-faceted resources, operations, policies, and economics, as well as stakeholders, disruptors, and drivers that impact the SoS. This paper will present a design tool for an in-orbit hotel and associated vehicles/operations. An optimization approach is presented as useful for generating and analyzing architecture alternatives based on metrics of importance, such as affordability. The dialogue on these topics and the framework provided by the initial constructs presented by this paper should be valuable to the space tourism market and other new ventures in the space industry.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123490161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753876
Leonard Petnga, Thomas Gasque
Our work is concerned with the formulation of sound and reusable metrics for effective characterization and analysis of System of Systems (SoS). This has been an impediment to the ability for SoS designers and analysts to gain effective understanding of SoS attributes, especially the core competencies i.e., autonomy, connectivity and belonging as per the Boardman-Sauser theory of SoS. Consequently, there is a strong need for mechanisms and approaches to leverage SoS theoretical results and formalisms for effective and rigorous characterization of SoS as well as engineering modeling and analysis across a wide range of application domains. Accordingly, this paper introduces a novel capability-driven formulation of SoS core competencies. Boardman-Sauser based theoretical foundations are refined and extended to account for the central role capabilities of component systems play in, (1) enabling the realization of needed SoS capabilities for given missions and, (2) driving the formulation and evaluation of SoS core competencies. Detailed process, functions and metrics are described for characterizing autonomy. A system dynamic prototype implementation is created to illustrate the approach in a simplified case study involving unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) configured as a Directed SoS for a wildfire fighting mission.
{"title":"Capability-driven Formulation of System of Systems Core Competencies","authors":"Leonard Petnga, Thomas Gasque","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753876","url":null,"abstract":"Our work is concerned with the formulation of sound and reusable metrics for effective characterization and analysis of System of Systems (SoS). This has been an impediment to the ability for SoS designers and analysts to gain effective understanding of SoS attributes, especially the core competencies i.e., autonomy, connectivity and belonging as per the Boardman-Sauser theory of SoS. Consequently, there is a strong need for mechanisms and approaches to leverage SoS theoretical results and formalisms for effective and rigorous characterization of SoS as well as engineering modeling and analysis across a wide range of application domains. Accordingly, this paper introduces a novel capability-driven formulation of SoS core competencies. Boardman-Sauser based theoretical foundations are refined and extended to account for the central role capabilities of component systems play in, (1) enabling the realization of needed SoS capabilities for given missions and, (2) driving the formulation and evaluation of SoS core competencies. Detailed process, functions and metrics are described for characterizing autonomy. A system dynamic prototype implementation is created to illustrate the approach in a simplified case study involving unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) configured as a Directed SoS for a wildfire fighting mission.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"90 31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129860317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753829
Oon Ling Lee, Rick Im Tay, Shing Tsair Too, A. Gorod
As increasing economic, technological and infrastructural development takes place in smart cities, there is an immediate need for a transportation governance framework for smart cities. The land transportation system in smart cities can be viewed as a system of systems that consist of constituents that are autonomous, belonging, connected, diverse and emergent, with one common objective to transport passengers in a safe and efficient way. This paper will introduce a new system of systems governance framework, using Singapore as a case study to illustrate how the existence of an effective governance of “system of systems” can allow smart cities to operate efficiently and effectively.
{"title":"A Smart City transportation System of Systems Governance Framework: A Case Study of Singapore","authors":"Oon Ling Lee, Rick Im Tay, Shing Tsair Too, A. Gorod","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753829","url":null,"abstract":"As increasing economic, technological and infrastructural development takes place in smart cities, there is an immediate need for a transportation governance framework for smart cities. The land transportation system in smart cities can be viewed as a system of systems that consist of constituents that are autonomous, belonging, connected, diverse and emergent, with one common objective to transport passengers in a safe and efficient way. This paper will introduce a new system of systems governance framework, using Singapore as a case study to illustrate how the existence of an effective governance of “system of systems” can allow smart cities to operate efficiently and effectively.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128620789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753881
Celal Savur, Shitij Kumar, Sarthak Arora, Tuly Hazbar, F. Sahin
This paper presents an experimentation platform for human robot collaboration as a system of systems as well as proposes a conceptual framework describing the aspects of Human Robot Collaboration. These aspects are Awareness, Intelligence and Compliance of the system. Based on this framework case studies describing experiment setups performed using this platform are discussed. Each experiment highlights the use of the subsystems such as the digital twin, motion capture system, human-physiological monitoring system, data collection system and robot control and interface systems. A highlight of this paper showcases a subsystem with the ability to monitor human physiological feedback during a human robot collaboration task.
{"title":"HRC-SoS: Human Robot Collaboration Experimentation Platform as System of Systems","authors":"Celal Savur, Shitij Kumar, Sarthak Arora, Tuly Hazbar, F. Sahin","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753881","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an experimentation platform for human robot collaboration as a system of systems as well as proposes a conceptual framework describing the aspects of Human Robot Collaboration. These aspects are Awareness, Intelligence and Compliance of the system. Based on this framework case studies describing experiment setups performed using this platform are discussed. Each experiment highlights the use of the subsystems such as the digital twin, motion capture system, human-physiological monitoring system, data collection system and robot control and interface systems. A highlight of this paper showcases a subsystem with the ability to monitor human physiological feedback during a human robot collaboration task.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127879480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753855
P. Shahmaleki
The production approaches of energy and water are undeniably interconnected; optimizing these approaches promises to increase overall system efficiency and lower energy and freshwater production costs. This paper will demonstrate this solution by investigating a synergistic co-generation system developed to concurrently generate electricity and fresh water using a solar plant. The solar plant utilizes a parabolic trough solar concentrator to collect solar energy that is used to run a supercritical CO2 Brayton power cycle and drive MSF desalination unit from wasted energy. A dynamic model of the proposed multi-stage system has been simulated, and the simulation results reveal that the proposed co-generation system is capable of generating a maximum of 27 MW power and 372 lit/s water mass flow rate exemplifying the efficiency advantages over the existing technologies.
{"title":"Optimized Approach to Water Desalination and Solar Energy Power Production","authors":"P. Shahmaleki","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753855","url":null,"abstract":"The production approaches of energy and water are undeniably interconnected; optimizing these approaches promises to increase overall system efficiency and lower energy and freshwater production costs. This paper will demonstrate this solution by investigating a synergistic co-generation system developed to concurrently generate electricity and fresh water using a solar plant. The solar plant utilizes a parabolic trough solar concentrator to collect solar energy that is used to run a supercritical CO2 Brayton power cycle and drive MSF desalination unit from wasted energy. A dynamic model of the proposed multi-stage system has been simulated, and the simulation results reveal that the proposed co-generation system is capable of generating a maximum of 27 MW power and 372 lit/s water mass flow rate exemplifying the efficiency advantages over the existing technologies.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123240139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753838
Isaac Burton, J. Straub
There is significant interest in and ongoing development activities related to artificial intelligence. Software systems are now routinely developed and deployed to perform - and make decisions about performing - complicated tasks. Artificial intelligence is being used in systems ranging from search engines to video games to weapon controllers. Cyber and electronic warfare is also in a growth phase and the demand for cyber security professionals is skyrocketing. Even without staffing limitations, humans can't fight a logic war at computers' speed. This paper describes a framework for a system of system for cyber and electronic warfare. This system automatically scans networks, searches for vulnerabilities, exploits these vulnerabilities and utilizes these new hosts as resources for expansion. This system can serve as a countermeasure or deterrent. Alternately, an adversary could develop such a system for offensive purposes. The automated intelligent system described herein is designed to be used to quickly gain control of adversarial infrastructure, which can then be leveraged as necessary.
{"title":"Autonomous Distributed Electronic Warfare System of Systems","authors":"Isaac Burton, J. Straub","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753838","url":null,"abstract":"There is significant interest in and ongoing development activities related to artificial intelligence. Software systems are now routinely developed and deployed to perform - and make decisions about performing - complicated tasks. Artificial intelligence is being used in systems ranging from search engines to video games to weapon controllers. Cyber and electronic warfare is also in a growth phase and the demand for cyber security professionals is skyrocketing. Even without staffing limitations, humans can't fight a logic war at computers' speed. This paper describes a framework for a system of system for cyber and electronic warfare. This system automatically scans networks, searches for vulnerabilities, exploits these vulnerabilities and utilizes these new hosts as resources for expansion. This system can serve as a countermeasure or deterrent. Alternately, an adversary could develop such a system for offensive purposes. The automated intelligent system described herein is designed to be used to quickly gain control of adversarial infrastructure, which can then be leveraged as necessary.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"683 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116110365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753858
B. White
A practical template is offered for evaluating one's quality of life (QoL), either one's own, or another's whom one cares about. The template is constructed as a system of systems (SoS) where each system corresponds to a relevant aspect of life. The systems are weighted as to importance and graded to reflect current capabilities. The SoS is scored and compared to a maximum possible value as a quantitative measure of happiness from which the protagonist might utilize to influence her/his future. For illustration, the author provides the latest example of his own QoL assessment.
{"title":"Engineering One's Quality of Life as an SoS","authors":"B. White","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753858","url":null,"abstract":"A practical template is offered for evaluating one's quality of life (QoL), either one's own, or another's whom one cares about. The template is constructed as a system of systems (SoS) where each system corresponds to a relevant aspect of life. The systems are weighted as to importance and graded to reflect current capabilities. The SoS is scored and compared to a maximum possible value as a quantitative measure of happiness from which the protagonist might utilize to influence her/his future. For illustration, the author provides the latest example of his own QoL assessment.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115496918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753825
N. Glazkova, C. Fortin, T. Podladchikova
Currently the healthcare industry undergoes disruptive changes so that the design of medical products requires much better speed, flexibility and inter-connectivity. Research and development of mobile health products require an intensive collaboration from cross-disciplinary teams. In order to succeed, healthcare product providers should adapt their engineering processes to the fast improving environment. This paper introduces a hybrid Lean-Agile approach for the medical wearable device development process with respect to the learning outcomes and quality management system.
{"title":"Application of Lean-Agile Approach for Medical Wearable Device Development","authors":"N. Glazkova, C. Fortin, T. Podladchikova","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753825","url":null,"abstract":"Currently the healthcare industry undergoes disruptive changes so that the design of medical products requires much better speed, flexibility and inter-connectivity. Research and development of mobile health products require an intensive collaboration from cross-disciplinary teams. In order to succeed, healthcare product providers should adapt their engineering processes to the fast improving environment. This paper introduces a hybrid Lean-Agile approach for the medical wearable device development process with respect to the learning outcomes and quality management system.","PeriodicalId":133413,"journal":{"name":"2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124853229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-01DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753882
Jonathan McClure, F. Sahin
In this work, an unmanned aerial system is implemented to search an outdoor area for an injured or missing person (subject) without requiring a connection to a ground operator or control station. The system detects subjects using exclusively on-board hardware as it traverses a predefined search path, with each implementation envisioned as a single element of a larger swarm of identical search drones. Imagery is streamed from a camera to an Odroid single-board computer, which prepares the data for inference by a Neural Compute Stick vision accelerator. A single-class TinyYolo network, trained on the Okutama-Action dataset and an original Albatross dataset, is utilized to detect subjects in the prepared frames. The detection apparatus is mounted on a drone and field tests validate the system feasibility and efficacy.
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