Symbiotic Design
Abstract
The Symbiotic Design program developed artificial intelligence-based approaches to augment human teams in the design of cyber-physical systems (CPS), and thereby significantly reduce time to deployment and improve the quality of deployed systems. The current generation of DoD systems and platforms integrate cyber and physical subsystems, but the capability of the engineering teams has not scaled with the enormous complexity of modern CPS. Engineering organizations require large teams of engineers that collectively possess the necessary domain knowledge (of component technologies, theories, and tools), but the prolonged timelines of the development process for modern CPS hinders DoD's ability to counter emerging threats. The Symbiotic Design program addressed this challenge by transforming the human-focused, model-based design flows used today into a symbiotic process of collaborative analysis by humans and continuously-learning artificial intelligence (AI)-based co-designers. The program created technologies essential for AI co-design: design space construction, design composition, and design space exploration. The program demonstrated the approach at realistic scales by a sequence of CPS design challenges of increasing complexity, and quantified the results with respect to development time, system performance, quality, and innovation metrics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 0dc8504c4b506bae43b4f111ed140f82