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Activity Number: 29
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Abstract - #308377
Title: A New Statistical Approach for the Analysis of Uncertain Systems
Author(s): Xinjia Chen*+ and Kemin Zhou and Jorge Aravena
Companies: Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University
Address: Dept of ECE, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803,
Keywords: Monte Carlo Simulation ; Sample Reuse ; Robust Statistics ; Numerical Method ; Uncertainty ; Control Systems
Abstract:

This paper addresses the issues of conservativeness and computational complexity of probabilistic robustness analysis. We solve both issues by defining a new sampling strategy and robustness measure. The new measure is shown to be much less conservative than the existing one. The new sampling strategy enables the definition of efficient hierarchical sample reuse algorithms that reduce significantly the computational complexity and make it independent of the dimension of the uncertainty space. Moreover, we show that there exists a one to one correspondence between the new and the existing robustness measures and provide a computationally simple algorithm to derive one from the other.


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