Control

Monitoring and control of cyber-physical systems.
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Visible to the public Learning to Sense Robustly and Act Effectively

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The physical environment of a cyber-physical system is unboundedly complex, changing continuously in time and space. An embodied cyber- physical system, embedded in the physical world, receives a high bandwidth stream of sensory information, and sends continuous control signals. Traditional embedded systems restrict the environment or the attributes considered relevant, and depend on human supervision.

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Visible to the public GoingEasy® with Crowdsourcing – Building Cyber-Physical Systems for People with Visual Impairment

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Many practical barriers continue to exist for a blind individual who strives to live an independent and active life, despite decades of development of assistive technologies. This project addresses the following two most prominent challenges: (1) disparity in information-sharing among people with visual impairment and its limited understanding by the research community; and (2) lack of methods and tools for effectively addressing the disparity.

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Visible to the public Distributed Asynchronous Algorithms & Software Systems For Wide-Area Monitoring of Power Systems

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The objective of this NSF-CPS Synergy proposal is to develop a distributed algorithmic framework, supported by a highly fault-tolerant software system, for executing critical transmission-level operations of the North American power grid using gigantic volumes of Synchrophasor data.

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Visible to the public Holonic Multi-Agent Control of Intelligent Power Distribution Systems

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The project will demonstrate a holonic multi-agent system architecture (HMSA) capable of adaptively controlling future electrical power distribution systems, which are expected to include a large number of renewable power generators, energy storage devices, and advanced metering and control devices. The project will produce a general, extensible, and secure cyber architecture based on holonic multi-agent principles to support adaptive PDS.

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Visible to the public Event-Based Information Acquisition, Learning, and Control in High-Dimensional Cyber-Physical Systems

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This research proposal focuses on event--based information acquisition, state estimation and control in the context of high dimensional cyber physical systems. In particular, as part of the cyber system a (set of) decision maker(s) or agents is responsible for the acquisition of information, learning, and control about the underlying physical system of interest. The information acquisition process may be instigated or adapted based on events in the systems.

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Visible to the public Co-Design of Multimodal CPS Architectures and Adaptive Controllers

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The project is an on-going collaborative effort between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania since 2011.

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Visible to the public Cyborg Insect Networks for Exploration and Mapping (CINEMa)

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The present day technology falls short in offering centimeter scale mobile robots that can function effectively under unknown and dynamic environmental conditions. Insects, on the other hand, exhibit an unmatched ability to navigate through a wide variety of environments and overcome perturbations by successfully maintaining control and stability.

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Visible to the public CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Engineering Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical-Human Systems

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This cross-disciplinary project brings together a team of engineering and computer science researchers to create, validate, and demonstrate the value of new techniques for ensuring that systems composed of combinations of hardware, software, and people are designed to operate in a truly synergistic and safe fashion.