Control

Monitoring and control of cyber-physical systems.
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Visible to the public CPS:Small: Transforming a City's Transportation Infrastructure Through an Embedded Pervasive Communication Network

The objective of this inter-disciplinary research is to develop new technologies that transform the streets of a city into a hybrid transportation/communication system, called the Intelligent Road (iRoad), where autonomous wireless devices are co-located with traffic signals, forming a wireless network that fuses real-time transportation data from all over the city to support a wide range of new applications.
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Visible to the public Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments

This CPS research focuses on collaborative driving, specifically in convoy type applications, and testing of hybrid systems. Specfically, this research investigates the development of the computational issues and testing aspects of a newer, more tactical hybrid state autonomous controller for multi-robot exploration scenarios for DSTO Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC 2010) and the evaluation of th eautomotive convoy-based scenarios of the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (May 2011).

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Visible to the public CPS: Small: Real-time, Simulation-based Planning and Asynchronous Coordination for Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-physical systems research aims to provide devices with autonomous decision-making that are robust enough to be employed in a variety of important applications. Thus, it is necessary to design physically-grounded intelligent agents that autonomously plan and coordinate their actions as they interact with complex physical processes. Physically-grounded means that the agents must model the physical world in a realistic manner and consider the effects of physical constraints.
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Visible to the public Design of Networked Control Systems for Chemical Processes

Augmenting dedicated control systems with
 real-time sensor 
and actuator networks poses a number of new challenges in control system design that cannot be addressed with traditional process 
control methods, including: a) the handling of additional, potentially
 asynchronous and/or delayed
 measurements in the overall networked control system, and b) the
 substantial increase in the number of process state variables, manipulated inputs, and measurements which may impede the ability of
 centralized control systems to carry out real-time calculations within th
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Visible to the public CPS: Small: Control of Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems under Partial Information and Limited Communication

The principal objective of this project is the development of novel control architectures and computationally efficient controller design algorithms for distributed cyber-physical systems with decentralized information infrastructures and limited communication capabilities.  Interest is in distributed cyber-physical systems where the system components are able to communicate with one another.
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Visible to the public Collaborative Research: Abstraction of Cyber-Physical Interplays and Its Application to CPS Design

This project seeks to develop a systematic approach to facilitate the efficient codesign of both the control (physical) and computer (cyber) sides of a cyber-physical system (CPS). Designing a CPS requires substantial inter-disciplinary activity.
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Visible to the public Developing Theoretical Foundations for Understanding Implicit and Explicit Communication Within Cyber-Physical Systems

The objective of this research is to develop theoretical foundations for understanding implicit and explicit communication within cyber-physical systems.