From ef2fa0cc26d8a208b96a12dbb7695a98872833c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dane Sabo Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:38:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2024-09-27 15:38:28 --- 4 Qualifying Exam/2 Writing/1. QE Goals and Outcomes.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/4 Qualifying Exam/2 Writing/1. QE Goals and Outcomes.md b/4 Qualifying Exam/2 Writing/1. QE Goals and Outcomes.md index afb636f6..5ece046e 100644 --- a/4 Qualifying Exam/2 Writing/1. QE Goals and Outcomes.md +++ b/4 Qualifying Exam/2 Writing/1. QE Goals and Outcomes.md @@ -38,9 +38,10 @@ The diffusion generative model has shown great promise in creating novel and rea These generated plants can be used to verify robustness of controller implementations. A model of a controller can use robust control theory to establish the set of controllable plants, but an actual implementation of a controller can not be verified as robust in the same way. Instead, it must be verified experimentally using elements of the set. Extracting elements of the set is not a trivial task, but if this research is successful, a generative model can reduce the effort required to create perturbed plants. ## Edits -The goal of this research is to use a generative diffusion model to create unstructured perturbations of a nominal plant. In the real world, there is always a perturbation between the dynamics of the physical process and the mathematical model. Stability and performance of the controller suffer when this difference is large, but knowing that it is never zero, understanding how much performance is affected by the perturbation is important to know. Robust control answers this problem for mathematical models of plants. We can know precisely how much a model of a controller will be affected by a perturbation, and we can define a set of allowable perturbations that fit within our engineering specifications. +The goal of this research is to use a generative diffusion model to create unstructured perturbations of a nominal plant. In the real world, there is always a perturbation between the dynamics of the physical process and the mathematical model. Stability and performance of the controller suffer when this difference is large, but knowing that it is never zero, understanding how much performance is affected by the perturbation is important to know. Robust control answers this problem for mathematical models of plants. We can know precisely how much a model of a controller will be affected by a perturbation, and we can define a set of allowable perturbations that fit within our engineering specifications. + -A problem arises when we try to verify the robustness on an actual modern controller. In the actual implementation of control laws, there are several intermediate layers between the hardware, firmware, and software that can introduce mistakes. Unlike the model controller, we cannot easily verify that this controller has the same performance over the set of perturbed plants. The modern controller can only be tested with single elements from the set of plants. Because of this, we suggest using a diffusion generative model to generate elements from this set to validate implementations of controllers to be robust. +A problem arises when we try to verify the robustness on an actual modern controller. In the actual implementation of control laws, there are several intermediate layers between the hardware, firmware, and software that can introduce mistakes. Unlike the model controller, we cannot easily verify that this controller has the same performance over the set of perturbed plants. The modern controller can only be tested with single elements from the set of plants. Because of this, we suggest using a diffusion generative model to generate elements from this set to validate implementations of controllers to be robust. If this research is successful, this diffusion model will accomplish three main tasks: 1. It will approximate a set of controllable plants by generating a large number of perturbed examples