Towards Real-Time, On-Board, Hardware-Supported Sensor And Software Health Management For Unmanned Aerial Systems, Johann M. Schumann, Kristin Y. Rozier, Thomas Reinbacher, Ole J. Mengshoel, Timmy Mbaya, Corey Ippolito
Jun 2015
Towards Real-Time, On-Board, Hardware-Supported Sensor And Software Health Management For Unmanned Aerial Systems, Johann M. Schumann, Kristin Y. Rozier, Thomas Reinbacher, Ole J. Mengshoel, Timmy Mbaya, Corey Ippolito
Ole J Mengshoel
For unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to be successfully deployed and integrated within the national airspace, it is imperative that they possess the capability to effectively complete their missions without compromising the safety of other aircraft, as well as persons and property on the ground. This necessity creates a natural requirement for UAS that can respond to uncertain environmental conditions and emergent failures in real-time, with robustness and resilience close enough to those of manned systems. We introduce a system that meets this requirement with the design of a real-time onboard system health management (SHM) capability to continuously monitor sensors, software, …
Towards Real-Time, On-Board, Hardware-Supported Sensor And Software Health Management For Unmanned Aerial Systems, Johann Schumann, Kristin Y. Rozier, Thomas Reinbacher, Ole J. Mengshoel, Timmy Mbaya, Corey Ippolito
Sep 2013
Towards Real-Time, On-Board, Hardware-Supported Sensor And Software Health Management For Unmanned Aerial Systems, Johann Schumann, Kristin Y. Rozier, Thomas Reinbacher, Ole J. Mengshoel, Timmy Mbaya, Corey Ippolito
Ole J Mengshoel
Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) can only be deployed if they can effectively complete their missions and respond to failures and uncertain environmental conditions while maintaining safety with respect to other aircraft as well as humans and property on the ground. In this paper, we design a real-time, on-board system health management (SHM) capability to continuously monitor sensors, software, and hardware components for detection and diagnosis of failures and violations of safety or performance rules during the flight of a UAS. Our approach to SHM is three-pronged, providing: (1) real-time monitoring of sensor and/or software signals; (2) signal analysis, preprocessing, and …
Optimizing Parallel Belief Propagation In Junction Trees Using Regression, Lu Zheng, Ole J. Mengshoel
Jul 2013
Optimizing Parallel Belief Propagation In Junction Trees Using Regression, Lu Zheng, Ole J. Mengshoel
Ole J Mengshoel
The junction tree approach, with applications in artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and statistics, is often used for computing posterior distributions in probabilistic graphical models. One of the key challenges associated with junction trees is computational, and several parallel computing technologies - including many-core processors - have been investigated to meet this challenge. Many-core processors (including GPUs) are now programmable, unfortunately their complexities make it hard to manually tune their parameters in order to optimize software performance. In this paper, we investigate a machine learning approach to minimize the execution time of parallel junction tree algorithms implemented on a …
Exploring Multiple Dimensions Of Parallelism In Junction Tree Message Passing, Lu Zheng, Ole J. Mengshoel
Jun 2013
Exploring Multiple Dimensions Of Parallelism In Junction Tree Message Passing, Lu Zheng, Ole J. Mengshoel
Ole J Mengshoel
Belief propagation over junction trees is known to be computationally challenging in the general case. One way of addressing this computational challenge is to use node-level parallel computing, and parallelize the computation associated with each separator potential table cell. However, this approach is not efficient for junction trees that mainly contain small separators. In this paper, we analyze this problem, and address it by studying a new dimension of node-level parallelism, namely arithmetic parallelism. In addition, on the graph level, we use a clique merging technique to further adapt junction trees to parallel computing platforms. We apply our parallel approach …
Mobile Computing: Challenges And Opportunities For Autonomy And Feedback, Ole J. Mengshoel, Bob Iannucci, Abe Ishihara
May 2013
Mobile Computing: Challenges And Opportunities For Autonomy And Feedback, Ole J. Mengshoel, Bob Iannucci, Abe Ishihara
Ole J Mengshoel
Mobile devices have evolved to become computing platforms more similar to desktops and workstations than the cell phones and handsets of yesteryear. Unfortunately, today’s mobile infrastructures are mirrors of the wired past. Devices, apps, and networks impact one another, but a systematic approach for allowing them to cooperate is currently missing. We propose an approach that seeks to open key interfaces and to apply feedback and autonomic computing to improve both user experience and mobile system dynamics.
Software Health Management With Bayesian Networks, Johann Schumann, Timmy Mbaya, Ole J. Mengshoel, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Ashok Srivastava, Arthur Choi, Adnan Darwiche
May 2013
Software Health Management With Bayesian Networks, Johann Schumann, Timmy Mbaya, Ole J. Mengshoel, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Ashok Srivastava, Arthur Choi, Adnan Darwiche
Ole J Mengshoel
Software Health Management (SWHM) is an emerging field which addresses the critical need to detect, diagnose, predict, and mitigate adverse events due to software faults and failures. These faults could arise for numerous reasons including coding errors, unanticipated faults or failures in hardware, or problematic interactions with the external environment. This paper demonstrates a novel approach to software health management based on a rigorous Bayesian formulation that monitors the behavior of software and operating system, performs probabilistic diagnosis, and provides information about the most likely root causes of a failure or software problem. Translation of the Bayesian network model into …
Generalized Crowding For Genetic Algorithms, Ole J. Mengshoel, Severino F. Galan
Jun 2010
Generalized Crowding For Genetic Algorithms, Ole J. Mengshoel, Severino F. Galan
Ole J Mengshoel
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offspring with a similar individual in the current population (pairing phase) and deciding which of the two will remain in the population (replacement phase). The present work focuses on the replacement phase of crowding, which usually has been carried out by one of the following three approaches: Deterministic, Probabilistic, and Simulated Annealing. These approaches present some limitations regarding the way replacement is conducted. On the one hand, the first two apply the same …