The fifth thrust area aims at creating new methods for studying ground vehicles as "systems of systems" with an emphasis on robustness, and focusing on the creation of a comprehensive vehicle performance and evaluation system, including leveraging and integrating the individual discipline research from other ARC thrust areas.

Specific areas of study include: 1) Probabilistic optimal design of distributed and multilevel systems, 2) theory and application of reliability-based design optimization, including developing appropriate multi-objective problem formulations that capture the tradeoffs between reliability, robustness and measures of cost associated with achieving them, 3) integration of system design and control robustness, 4) system complexity reduction, 5) collaborative, integrated simulation systems.

Thrust Area Leader : Prof. Gregory M. Hulbert

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