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AURA Software Tackles Uncertainty in Complex Systems

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Overview

Langley Research Center awarded SBIR contracts to Charlottesville, Virginia-based Barron Associates Inc. to build on earlier work the company did with Langley to predict the performance of aircraft diagnostic and control systems. The result, Algorithms for Uncertainty Representation and Analysis (AURA), can determine uncertainties and probabilities of various outcomes in a single calculation. AURA has been used to validate autonomous systems for planes and drones and to predict how drug molecules might behave in the body, but it can be applied to any complex system.