Flexibility analysis of complex technical systems under uncertainty

An important problem in designing technical systems under partial uncertainty of the initial physical, chemical, and technological data is the determination of a design in which the technical system is flexible, i.e., its control system is capable of guaranteeing that the constraints hold even under changes in external and internal factors and application of fuzzy mathematical models in its design. Three flexibility problems, viz., the flexibility of a technical system of given structure, structural flexibility of a technical system, and the optimal design guaranteeing the flexibility of a technical system, are studied. Two approaches to these problems are elaborated. Results of a computation experiment are given.