# System Design for Uncertainty

- By: Franz S. Hover & Michael S. Triantafyllou
- Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Mechanical_Engineering/System_Design_for_Uncertainty_(Hover_and_Triantafyllou))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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This text covers the design, construction, and testing of field robotic systems, through team projects with each student responsible for a specific subsystem. Projects focus on electronics, instrumentation, and machine elements. Design for operation in uncertain conditions is a focus point, with ocean waves and marine structures as a central theme. Topics include basic statistics, linear systems, Fourier transforms, random processes, spectra, ethics in engineering practice, and extreme events.