Abstract:
The modern electronic systems have become very complex with a high number of potential factors that may affect the systems' behavior. Sensitivity analysis may be employed...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
The modern electronic systems have become very complex with a high number of potential factors that may affect the systems' behavior. Sensitivity analysis may be employed to simplify the analysis of such systems and identify the most important factors upfront. The paper introduces two new sensitivity analysis methods based on the measure of entropy, which overcome the limitation of several state-of-the-art methods imposing a specific design of experiments and a high computational cost, measured as the number of simulations (measurements) needed, for the sensitivity analysis. Their performance is compared to other methods based on variance decomposition and One-Factor-at-a-Time screening. The proposed methods named the Entropy Simple method and the Entropy Pair one are applied on a set of custom functions and an E-Bike application. They proved to have comparable accuracy to the state-of-the-art methods with the advantage of a lower computational cost and which does not increase with the number of factors.
Date of Conference: 06-09 December 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 February 2017
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