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dc.contributor.advisorJonathan P. How.en_US
dc.contributor.authorQuindlen, John Francisen_US
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-23T15:03:43Z
dc.date.available2018-05-23T15:03:43Z
dc.date.copyright2018en_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115591
dc.descriptionThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018.en_US
dc.descriptionThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.en_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-290).en_US
dc.description.abstractDue to the increasing complexity of autonomous, adaptive, and nonlinear systems, engineers commonly rely upon statistical techniques to verify that the closed-loop system satisfies specified performance requirements at all possible operating conditions. However, these techniques require a large number of simulations or experiments to exhaustively search the set of possible parametric uncertainties for conditions that lead to failure. This work focuses on resource-constrained applications, such as preliminary control system design or experimental testing, which cannot rely upon exhaustive search to analyze the robustness of the closed-loop system to those requirements. This thesis develops novel statistical verification frameworks that combine data-driven statistical learning techniques and control system verification. First, two frameworks are introduced for verification of deterministic systems with binary and non-binary evaluations of each trajectory's robustness. These frameworks implement machine learning models to learn and predict the satisfaction of the requirements over the entire set of possible parameters from a small set of simulations or experiments. In order to maximize prediction accuracy, closed-loop verification techniques are developed to iteratively select parameter settings for subsequent tests according to their expected improvement of the predictions. Second, extensions of the deterministic verification frameworks redevelop these procedures for stochastic systems and these new stochastic frameworks achieve similar improvements. Lastly, the thesis details a method for transferring information between simulators or from simulators to experiments. Moreover, this method is introduced as part of a new failure-adverse closed-loop verification framework, which is shown to successfully minimize the number of failures during experimental verification without undue conservativeness. Ultimately, these data-driven verification frameworks provide principled approaches for efficient verification of nonlinear systems at all stages in the control system development cycle.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby John Francis Quindlen.en_US
dc.format.extent290 pagesen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.rightsMIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582en_US
dc.subjectAeronautics and Astronautics.en_US
dc.titleData-driven methods for statistical verification of uncertain nonlinear systemsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreePh. D.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
dc.identifier.oclc1036985391en_US


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