A Provisional Approach to Maintaining Verification and Validation Capability in Self-Adapting Robots
Title | A Provisional Approach to Maintaining Verification and Validation Capability in Self-Adapting Robots |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | J. C. Gallagher, E. T. Matson, J. Goppert |
Conference Name | 2017 First IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) |
Date Published | April |
Keywords | 1239196, Adaptation models, autonomous aerial vehicles, computing components, CPS, cyber physical systems, damage response, Drag, EAH smart components, evolvable and adaptive hardware, evolvable-and-adaptive hardware, Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles, Force, Mathematical model, microrobots, Oscillators, physical components, provisional approach, Robot sensing systems, self-adapting robots, spatial scales, system performance improvement, temporal scales, V&V capability, Verification and Validation, verification-and-validation capability |
Abstract | Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are composed of multiple physical and computing components that are deeply intertwined, operate on differing spatial and temporal scales, and interact with one another in fluid, context dependent, manners. Cyber Physical Systems often include smart components that use local adaptation to improve whole system performance or to provide damage response. Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (EAH) components, at least conceptually, are often represented as an enabling technology for such smart components. This paper will outline one approach to applying CPS thinking to better address a growing need to address Verification and Validation (V&V) questions related to the use of EAH smart components. It will argue that, perhaps fortuitously, the very adaptations EAH smart components employ for performance improvement may also be employed to maintain V&V capability. |
DOI | 10.1109/IRC.2017.35 |
Citation Key | 7926569 |
- Mathematical model
- verification-and-validation capability
- verification and validation
- V&V capability
- temporal scales
- system performance improvement
- spatial scales
- self-adapting robots
- Robot sensing systems
- provisional approach
- physical components
- Oscillators
- microrobots
- Adaptation models
- Force
- Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles
- evolvable-and-adaptive hardware
- evolvable and adaptive hardware
- EAH smart components
- Drag
- damage response
- cyber physical systems
- CPS
- computing components
- autonomous aerial vehicles
- 1239196