Katja Schuitemaker, J. G. Braakhuis, M. Rajabalinejad
{"title":"A model based safety architecture framework for Dutch high speed train lines","authors":"Katja Schuitemaker, J. G. Braakhuis, M. Rajabalinejad","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151933","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a model-based safety architecture framework (MBSAF) for capturing and sharing architectural knowledge of safety cases of safety-critical systems of systems (SoS). Whilst architecture frameworks in the systems engineering domain consider safety often as dependent attribute, this study focusses specifically on sharing architectural knowledge of safety cases between stakeholders and managing safety in systems development. For this purpose, we adapt the A3 architecture overview (A3AO) tool. The application is shown though the case study of Dutch high speed train lines and shows how to derive requirements from various stakeholders by carrying out iterative validations of the A3AOs. The implemented technique consists of systems modeling language-based (SysML) diagrams. Outcomes of the assessment lead to guidelines for two A3AOs. This results in increasing and effective interaction between stakeholders, more overview for managing safety complexity, more insight into finding required safety information, and therefore; an increasing efficiency in safety engineering.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134024325","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}
{"title":"A systematic mapping of the research literature on system-of-systems engineering","authors":"J. Axelsson","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151918","url":null,"abstract":"The research area systems-of-systems engineering has increased rapidly over the last decade and now contains a substantial body of literature. To get an overview of the field, a systematic mapping of the literature has been done, covering over 3000 papers. It revealed a field massively dominated by US researchers, with an emphasis on military and space systems. A large number of people are involved, but few researchers focus on the area, and citations are fairly low compared to other fields. Important research topics include architecture, modeling and simulation, integration and interoperability, communication, sustainability, and safety and security. There are signs of immaturity within the research area, and it is recommended that existing venues are complemented with an international scientific event with very high standards for submissions.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127755135","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}
Mauricio A. Gomez, Yongho Kim, E. Matson, M. Tolstykh, Michael Munizzi
{"title":"Multi-agent system of systems to monitor wildfires","authors":"Mauricio A. Gomez, Yongho Kim, E. Matson, M. Tolstykh, Michael Munizzi","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151913","url":null,"abstract":"Wildfire monitoring and mitigation have been worldwide challenges in disaster reduction for quite a while. However as time goes, more and more acres of virgin forests continue being consumed. A problem like a wildfire can be analyzed from a System of Systems (SoS) point of view. The reason for this is because of the nature of all the involved stakeholders. In this work we discuss the benefits of developing a collaborative collection of systems. Approach that can quickly and effectively locate and track the spread of wildfires. To finish comparing it to monolithic approaches that have been vastly used until now. Agent based modelling (ABM) is used to show the different interaction of each of the different systems including different system network configuration. Our consideration in SoS problem is to find an effective configuration network communication between agents. To discover robustness with limited number of existing agents is also one of the concerns to improve.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130955603","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}
{"title":"Real-time flocking of multiple-quadrotor system of systems","authors":"O. Saif, I. Fantoni, A. Zavala‐Río","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151908","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of this paper is a real-time flocking control of multiple quadrotors in the context of system of systems. We believe that the most challenging aspect in multiple-quadrotor control is the interaction between quadrotors through sensing and preserving safe interdistances. The final objective is a collision-free flock of multiple quadrotors while navigating to a predefined destination. For this purpose, we develop control laws that are based on the consensus theory introduced by Olfati-Saber in [1]. Our control laws are designed in order to be compatible with experimental implementation and nonlinear model of quadrotors. Simulations and experiments using four quadrotors validate the performance of the proposed control laws. The convergence of interdistances between quadrotors to a desired value are maintained while navigating to a destination point.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122520928","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}
{"title":"A study on analysis of characteristics of ships navigators' look-out by using OZT","authors":"J. Kayano, H. Imazu, Chihiro Nishizaki, K. Murai","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151968","url":null,"abstract":"Human error is a main cause of collision accidents between ships. And most of them are caused by ship navigators' keeping an improper look-out, leading to missing the presence of other ships or not realizing dangerous situations until too late. In general, experienced navigators keep track of vessels posing collision threats quite adequately. Therefore, identifying and understanding the characteristics of experienced navigators' look-out methods will certainly lead to a reduction in sea accidents. In this study, the authors analyzed the data obtained by ship-handling simulation experiments using Obstacle Zone by Target (OZT) algorithms for examining the differences of the characteristics of look-out methods between experienced navigators and inexperienced navigators.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"288 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133714363","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}
{"title":"A fast map-reduce algorithm for burst errors in big data cloud storage","authors":"Xue Qin, B. Kelley, M. Saedy","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151912","url":null,"abstract":"In distributed storage for Big Data systems, there is a need for exact repair, high bandwidth codes. The challenge for exact repair in big-data storage is to simultaneously enable both very high bandwidth repair using Map-Reduce and simple coding schemes that also combine robust maximally distance separable (MDS) exact repair. MDS repair is for the rare, but exceptional outlier error patterns requiring optimum erasure code reconstruction. We construct the optimum fast bandwidth repair for big-data sources. Our system uses Map-Reduce, exact repair reconstruction. The algorithm combines MDS with a second fast decode algorithm in a cloud environment. We illustrate cloud experiments for optimum fast bandwidth reconstruction for 1-Exabyte Big Data in the cloud and demonstrate cloud results for Poisson error rate arrival models. Unlike prior methods, we jointly solve the problem of fast bandwidth repair for burst-memory error patterns and for code rates up to - in a real time error model framework for Big Data. Furthermore, simulations indicate this method outperforms prior fast bandwidth approaches for burst errors. We also illustrate Map-Reduce algorithm optimized for fast bandwidth repair in Big Data storage in clouds.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129013442","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}
{"title":"A novel system and technique for enhancing the lifetime of an air breathing micro PEM fuel cell based power source","authors":"P. Ramesh, M. Jithesh, V. Devaraj","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151929","url":null,"abstract":"Lately, there have been a tremendous amount of research in the field of renewable energy utilizing the fuel cell technology. This paper presents a highly reliable micro PEM fuel cell based power supply system which can operate in adverse and varying ambient conditions with a comparatively lower probability of cell damage. The life of a cell is greatly affected by catalyst poisoning- caused by selective adsorption of carbon monoxide by the platinum catalyst thereby reducing the rate of cell reaction by blocking its active sites; fuel starvation - resulting from the scarcity of oxygen required for the reaction to take place; and local hotspot generation caused by the non-uniformity in membrane impedance which occurs in the course of operation. The proposed system minimizes these threats with the help of an algorithm to overcome the issue of catalyst poisoning and fuel starvation and a mitigation algorithm to minimize the effect of impedance variation. It can be then used to power up portable electronic devices like wireless sensor nodes.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123633575","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}
{"title":"SLAM based shape adaptive coverage control using autonomous vehicles","authors":"Junnan Song, Shalabh Gupta","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151959","url":null,"abstract":"The complete coverage problem requires the full exploration of the entire area, with real-world applications like floor cleaning, lawn mowing, search and rescue, etc. These tasks often do not have the exact a priori knowledge of the target area (e.g., exact shape of the lawn or oil spill area). Thus it is essential that the autonomous vehicle uses on-board sensor feedbacks for exploration so as to: i) dynamically build the a priori unknown environment, and ii) adapt its path in situ. In this regard, it is desired that the autonomous vehicle not only adapts to the obstacles (e.g., landmarks) but also to the shape of the target area (e.g., the lawn) to save time and energy. Since, GPS may not be accessible in all environments, this paper presents a SLAM-based shape adaptive coverage algorithm which assumes that the exact a priori information of the desired workspace is either unknown or only partially known. This algorithm integrates the online information of obstacle and boundary detection with the navigation control. The algorithm is built upon a discrete event supervisory controller which utilizes the concept of multi-resolution navigation to prevent the autonomous vehicle from getting stuck into any local minimum. The efficacy of the algorithm has been validated in a lawn mowing example on the high-fidelity Player/Stage simulator.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116660386","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}
{"title":"Data-centric development of architecture models with the DM2 and MS-SDF","authors":"Matthew Amissah, Holly A. H. Handley","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151965","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Defense Architecture Framework's (DoDAF) [1]data-centric development paradigm offers the potential for depth in architecture data and flexibility in presentation styles aimed at decision support. However the architecture development methodology advocated in versions 2.0 and upwards is a significant shift in approach, compared to prior versions. The framework specification, supporting literature and exemplar implementations fail to offer enough detail on a number of pertinent issues, among them executable modeling and architecture analysis, and the technology or tooling requirements which will facilitate their implementation. As part of ongoing research efforts aimed at addressing this gap this paper offers an overview of the literature on architecture modeling methodologies specifically tailored to the DoDAF, and propose the Modeling and Simulation Systems Development Framework (MS-SDF) [2] as a coherent and comprehensive approach for modeling within the DoDAF.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116915610","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}
{"title":"A low cost velocity control of double sided LSRM by sliding mode control and PIC18F452","authors":"Wajdi Zaafrane, M. Dursun, H. Rehaoulia","doi":"10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151916","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a low-cost positioning application based on Linear Switched Reluctance Motor (LSRM). The Design, modeling and experimental results of the motor are detailed and presented in this study. The proposed control strategy is based on Sliding Mode Control (SMC) to control the velocity. PIC18F452 and MOSFET inverter are designed and developed for the implementation of the proposed controls strategy. This solution is characterized by its low-cost thing that can help to implement this actuator more frequently in industrial application. The accuracy and quality of the positioning prove the effeteness of the proposed control strategy. Experimental results show a good correspondence with theoretical and simulation studies. It was seen that problems of force and displacement ripples of the LSRM are solved.","PeriodicalId":399744,"journal":{"name":"2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129436460","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}