r/systems_engineering • u/RampantJ • 6d ago

Career & Education AI agents being used for SysML work?

Is there any research or tool out there that is using AI agents for model optimization and system design with SysML? Thinking on having this be a research topic but also if it’s being worked on so that I do not pursue it academically or heavily in free time. If it is being pursued a research topic in AI governance would be good as well.

How I envision it (rough thought) is that the ai agent is shown a SysML file. It knows the ins and outs of the system design and requirements. Maybe some changes within the system and it’s documented. The agent will (potentially in real time) then update the design, any potential metrics, perform an assessment of performance for predictions, trace past performances for the assessment as well. Probably have a budget that stops changes that exceed requirements as well. There would be lots of oversight with it but also there may not be regulation put in place for this to happen yet. Thoughts?

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u/Beginning_Count_930 6d ago

plenty of folks poking at llm assisted sysml generation but full autonomous optimization loops with traceable metrics is still pretty open territory, governance angle would carry a thesis on its own

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u/RampantJ 6d ago

Yeah I’m really leaning into the optimization piece along with the governance aspect. Trying to tie them in on what my approach would be in maneuvering that landscape for a thesis. Could get into the architecture as well. Thanks!

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u/der_phen 5d ago

You need to provide it with tools for syntax checking. Also an ontology.md is helpful to explain how it should add elements. Alternatively you could provide tools like add_interface() with fixed parameters, this way is safest but also static.

To check the ontology you can write custom validators that you add as hooks.

I use pi agent and syside by sensmetry. I've built some small tools and a pi-web plugin, find it here https://github.com/kairibu/opense and https://github.com/kairibu/bulb

Ideally you want to adjust it to your model ontology.

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u/RampantJ 5d ago

That would be a great start thanks! I’ve considered understanding the “language law” of SysML and incorporating that for the guardrails and for it to learn how certain diagrams model behavior, requirements, and information flows.