AUTHOR=Maghareh Amin , Fu Yuguang , Montoya Herta , Condori Johnny , Wang Zixin , Dyke Shirley J. , Montoya Arturo TITLE=A Reflective Framework for Performance Management (REFORM) of Real-Time Hybrid Simulation JOURNAL=Frontiers in Built Environment VOLUME=Volume 6 - 2020 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/built-environment/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2020.568742 DOI=10.3389/fbuil.2020.568742 ISSN=2297-3362 ABSTRACT=

Currently, the lack of (1) a sufficiently integrated, adaptive, and reflective framework to ensure the safety, integrity, and coordinated evolution of a real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) as it runs, and (2) the ability to articulate and gauge suitable measures of the performance and integrity of an experiment, both as it runs and post-hoc, have prevented researchers from tackling a wide range of complex research problems of vital national interest. To address these limitations of the current state-of-the-art, we propose a framework named Reflective Framework for Performance Management (REFORM) of real-time hybrid simulation. REFORM will support the execution of more complex RTHS experiments than can be conducted today, and will allow them to be configured rapidly, performed safely, and analyzed thoroughly. This study provides a description of the building blocks associated with the first phase of this development (REFORM-I). REFORM-I is verified and demonstrated through application to an expanded version of the benchmark control problem for real-time hybrid simulation.