Events Speaker Meetings Speaker Series 2012.02.14 - Model-Based Design, Engineering, and Development
| 2012.02.14 - Model-Based Design, Engineering, and Development |
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Model-Based Design, Engineering and Development: Advancements mean New Opportunities for Space Systems Development Speaker(s)Dr. Kirstie L. Bellman, Principal Scientist, Head of the Aerospace Integration Science Center (AISC), The Aerospace Corporation AbstractSpace systems have always been model-based. The difference now is the depth and extent of the modeling and how much models and model analyses have begun to substitute for traditional design and development activities. In this presentation, we consider some advances in model-based design, engineering and development (MBDED) that show great promise for complex space system design, and describe others that could provide even more gains for space systems, from design through operation. Schedule Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 5:30 pm to 7:45 pm Presentations
DescriptionSpace systems have always been model-based. The difference now is the depth and extent of the modeling and how much models and model analyses have begun to substitute for traditional design and development activities. In this presentation, we consider some advances in model-based design, engineering and development (MBDED) that show great promise for complex space system design, and describe others that could provide even more gains for space systems, from design through operation. We describe some of the advancements in model-based design, engineering and development (MBDED) and where they are perhaps especially relevant to space systems. This will include (A) the new scalability of formal methods, including the increasing importance of formal or mathematically-based modeling languages; (B) the way these gains promote increasingly tight integration between design and verification; and (C) the semantic integration of models and tool chains. In this discussion, we will note recent work in some relevant DARPA, NSF, and European programs. We will consider additional capabilities that should be emphasized in MBDED to make its impact upon complex space system design even greater. This will include (A) the critical need to model the development plans and processes for a complex system; (B) reflection capabilities to help tie all the diverse resources together into an adaptive framework that can help monitor, manage and report to the system designers its states, its use of resources, and its local context-dependent choices and decisions. Speaker BiographyDr. Kirstie L. Bellman is a Principal Scientist in the Computer Systems Division and head of the Aerospace Integration Sciences Center, which she started upon returning to The Aerospace Corporation after four years at DARPA. AISC's focus is on the development of advanced system and model integration methods, new analytic techniques, and evaluation tools for assessing the impacts of new technologies. While at DARPA, she extended the then new concept of Virtual Worlds to education, business and research environments. With a number of academic partners, she is also developing new mathematical approaches to the analysis of Virtual Worlds containing collaborating humans, artificial agents, and heterogeneous representations, models, and processing tools. Lastly, she has been working on reflective architectures that use models to manage their own resources and to reason about appropriate behavior. Recently, with both national and international partners, she has been applying the above experience and methods to theoretical work and experiments on emotional agents, cyber-medicine applications, bio-computation, and "biologiically-inspired" architectures and operating systems. |
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