Simulation-Based Mission Mobility Reliability Analysis of Off-Road Ground Vehicles

Abstract

This paper develops a simulation-based mission mobility reliability (MMR) analysis framework to account for uncertainty in mobility prediction of off-road ground vehicles in mission planning. A concept of MMR is first proposed to quantify reliability of a mission path which passes through different types of soils. A single-loop Kriging surrogate modeling method is then employed to overcome the computational challenge in MMR assessment caused by expensive mobility simulations. Built upon the surrogate model-based MMR analysis, a dynamic updating scheme is proposed to update the MMR estimation using online mobility data, during the course of a specific mission and for a particular vehicle. The online dynamic updating of MMR allows us for effective and dynamic decision-making during the mission phase, thus proactively avoid rare events of immobility during the mission. A case study demonstrates the efficacy of the proposed MMR analysis and updating framework.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 09, 2020
Source ID
10.1115/1.4048314

Entities

People

  • Chen Jiang
  • David Gorsich
  • Monica Majcher
  • Paramsothy Jayakumar
  • Yan Fu
  • Yixuan Liu
  • Zhen Hu
  • Zissimos P. Mourelatos

Organizations

  • Ford Motor Company
  • Oakland University
  • United States Army
  • United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command
  • University of Michigan–Dearborn

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