Data Model Fusion: Design, Experiments and Frameworks for Surface Platforms

Abstract

Designing the next generation of autonomous platforms requires resolving several fundamental research challenges if optimal platform s are to emerge. Based on an initial project started in partnership with industry, several areas of need have been identified. The a bility to have highly reliable machinery for long-duration missions and the ability to support system reconfiguration and platform-l evel system assessment with digital twins have both been highlighted as areas where fundamental research is necessary. The ability t o understand tradeoffs between different system designs and understand what drives design interdependency has also been identified a s areas where our fundamental understanding and practical algorithms must be improved. This grant focuses on addressing three challe nges in these areas:1. Improving our ability to design high-reliability machinery systems considering trades between component relia bility and system architecture,2. Growing digital twins from component-based approaches to integrative system models capable of reas oning with multiple input types and choosing between models of differing fidelity and robustness,3. Exploring novel design-stage ont ological representations of these systems to provide increased understanding of the interactions in system design ahead of full prod uct model development.These activities will be supported by developing a tabletop model of a high-reliability machinery system that will generate data to evaluate the approaches and algorithms developed during this project.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Sep 07, 2021
Source ID
N000142112795

Entities

People

  • Matthew Collette

Organizations

  • Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design