An Artificial Honeybee Colony Algorithm to Quantify Adaptability via Resilience for Space System Architectures

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dc.contributorOlcmen, Semih
dc.contributorBaker, John
dc.contributorBranam, Richard
dc.contributorMulani, Sameer
dc.contributorPhillips, Sean
dc.contributor.advisorOlcmen, Semih
dc.contributor.authorNichols, Alec Chandler
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T21:21:14Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T21:21:14Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractMultidisciplinary nature-inspired approaches for designing, understanding, optimizing, and representing complex systems are becoming increasingly common in engineering applications. The highly interconnected relationships within these systems are challenging to model; thus, novel techniques to measure performance and optimize system design and function are needed. To explore agent-based biomimetic models to represent distributed systems such as satellite swarms and constellations, this dissertation advances nature-inspired agent-based modeling approaches by surveying and developing a resilience quantification analysis applicable to multiple satellite constellation models. Resilience is a temporal, emergent capability to robustly absorb and adapt to disruptive events, restoring a system's operations or performance requirements. The metric is quantified as a ratio of the variances of disrupted to ideal performance-time data, where retaining a constant uncertainty indicates reduced noise in adaptivity. As a method for analyzing and optimizing resilience, this work presents a novel biological-inspired optimization algorithm, the adaptive artificial honeybee colony (AHC), to search for and generate resilient (or optimal) solutions to highly interconnected or nonlinear problems. The AHC is an agent-based algorithm that integrates pollination models, particle swarm dynamics, and mutualistic relations to generate new solution spaces and locate optimal or resilient solutions. For verification, the AHC's capabilities were tested against particle swarm optimization and gradient descent for five benchmark functions given three different initial guesses ranging in proximities to the optimal solution. The AHC outperformed the other two methods in all five tests, locating optimal solutions in every case regardless of the initial guess' proximity to the optimum. The AHC's optimization capabilities extend to analyzing the resilience of an investigative satellite swarm by maneuvering the satellites to a more distributed, resilient architecture that preserves observation-based performance quality despite disruptive events or satellite failure. Additionally, a sensitivity analysis determined the most sensitive tunable parameter to be the pollination cluster radius, which determines the area new solutions appear within at each iteration via pollination. The results of these tests and applications demonstrate how the AHC's adaptive characteristics are beneficial in optimizing the resilience of highly interconnected, nonlinear, or complex problems where the user may have little to no former knowledge or intuition.en_US
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dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/188371
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0004890
dc.identifier.otherNichols_alatus_0004D_15336
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/13092
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
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dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectagent based modeling
dc.subjectartificial honeybee colony
dc.subjectcomplex systems
dc.subjectnature-inspired optimization
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectsatellite constellations
dc.titleAn Artificial Honeybee Colony Algorithm to Quantify Adaptability via Resilience for Space System Architecturesen_us
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
etdms.degree.disciplineAerospace engineering
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.
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