Join us for our 9 April 2024 Chapter meeting featuring:
Main Presentation: "Risk Management and Systems Engineering: The Shaping of New and Future Activities of the INCOSE Risk Management WG", by Jack Stein and Bob Parro
Abstract:
Systems engineers as individuals, and the field of systems engineering as a whole, are faced with an enormous challenge. Increasing system complexity, and ever more rapid and unpredictable developments and changes in technology, and in the socio-technical environments in which we will engineer and use the systems of the future, are creating levels of uncertainty, risk, and opportunity never before encountered.
In response, the practice of risk (and opportunity) management, in general and specifically as related to systems engineering, are undergoing significant change.
This presentation will inform attendees of recent changes in the practice of risk (and opportunity) management, and will provide an overview of INCOSE Risk Management Working Group (RMWG) current and future planned activities. The session will include an open Q&A segment, and is intended to be engaging two-way exchange of information, thoughts and ideas, aimed at directing, prioritizing, and improving the activities and work products of the INCOSE RMWG.
Bio:
The INCOSE Risk Management Working Group (WG) was established in 1998, making it one of INCOSE’s longest running working groups. Currently, the WG has just over 120 members world-wide. The size and scope of activities of the WG are expected to increase as fundamental changes in the concepts, principals and practices of risk management defined in the 1st (2009) edition of overarching international risk standard ISO 31000, Risk Management — Principles and guidelines, are implemented in an increasing number of organizations and systems engineering projects and programs. These changes are reflected in ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021, Systems and software engineering — Life cycle processes — Risk management, and in the 5th Edition of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook.
Bob Parro and Jack Stein share in the chair-person duties of the Risk Management WG, making sure the WG is represented at monthly TechOps meetings and Annual International Workshops (IWs). As WG co-chairs, Jack and Bob have co-authored the Risk Management sections of both the 4th and 5th editions of the INCOSE SE Handbook. Together with WG member and standards specialist Paul Heininger, they represented INCOSE and the WG in the ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021 work.
Jack Stein resides in Michigan and is a Past President of the INCOSE Michigan Chapter. Bob Parro resides in the Chicago area and is a Past President of the Chicagoland Chapter. They are both strong advocates of WG-Chapter interaction.
INCOSE-LA Chapter Speaker Meeting - Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Human-Agent Teams
El Segundo , USA
200 North Aviation Blvd, Bldg D8, Rm 1010
Deborah Cannon (714-477-3755)
See here for detailed event information. RSVP Requested.
ABSTRACT: A shift toward urban and asymmetric warfare is pushing the Army toward distributed autonomous systems. They must be adaptable, mobile, and resilient. Among these are systems of multiple collaborating robots, such as drone swarms. In future missions, humans and autonomous assets will be working in coordinated teams at nearly the same level of authority. The effects of human interaction with automation are often unintuitive and may complicate the design of such systems.
The Army Research Lab's Technology Development and Transition Team (ARL TDT) seeks to solve these issues through the use of agent-based modeling and simulation, to enable prediction of system-of-system performance at early design stages. This enables simulation of different mixtures of humans and autonomous agents spanning the design space of possible systems. As a motivating case study, a model and simulation of a multi-operator, multi-UAV surveillance team is presented. The model of human performance dynamically adjusts for fatigue, workload, and task difficulty. Coupled with physical models of quadcopter and fixed-wing UAVs, this establishes a platform for predicting system capability as a function of human team size, UAV team size, mix of diverse UAV types, and hardware quality.
The simulation can be previewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxSaexuccbI
A brief introduction to Army Research Lab - West, established in Playa Vista in 2015 to engage with local universities and industry partners, will also be presented.
BIOGRAPHY: Dr. James Humann is a postdoctoral fellow at the US Army Research Lab. He earned an MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from USC, with an emphasis on design and systems engineering, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. His current research focuses on agent-based modeling of distributed systems-of-systems including human, manned, and unmanned assets. He is an INCOSE LA member and has presented at CSER and IEEE SysCon.