Risk Allocation for Temporal Risk Assessment

MEng thesis

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Andrew J.
Other Authors: Brian Williams
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113371
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spelling mit-1721.1/1133712019-04-11T10:20:37Z Risk Allocation for Temporal Risk Assessment Wang, Andrew J. Brian Williams Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems MEng thesis Temporal uncertainty arises when performing any activity in the natural world. When activities are composed into temporal plans, then, there is a risk of not meeting the plan requirements. Currently, we do not have quantitatively precise methods for assessing temporal risk of a plan. Existing methods that deal with temporal uncertainty either forgo probabilistic models or try to optimize a single objective, rather than satisfy multiple objectives. This thesis offers a method for evaluating whether a schedule exists that meets a set of temporal constraints, with acceptable risk of failure. Our key insight is to assume a form of risk allocation to each source of temporal uncertainty in our plan, such that we may reformulate the probabilistic plan into an STNU parameterized on the risk allocation. We show that the problem becomes a deterministic one of finding a risk allocation which implies a schedulable STNU within acceptable risk. By leveraging the principles behind STNU analysis, we derive conditions which encode this problem as a convex feasibility program over risk allocations. Furthermore, these conditions may be learned incrementally as temporal conflicts. Thus, to boost computational efficiency, we employ a generate-and-test approach to determine whether a schedule may be found. 2018-01-31T00:01:19Z 2018-01-31T00:01:19Z 2013-01-31 2018-01-31T00:01:19Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113371 MIT-CSAIL-TR-2018-011 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 64 p. application/pdf
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Risk Allocation for Temporal Risk Assessment
title Risk Allocation for Temporal Risk Assessment
title_full Risk Allocation for Temporal Risk Assessment
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title_short Risk Allocation for Temporal Risk Assessment
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url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113371
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