Automotive

Design, development and manufacture of motor vehicles, towed vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds.
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Visible to the public Knowledge-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems

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During the development process of CPS, an analysis of whether the system operates safely in its target environment is of utmost importance. This entails two interconnected research goals in the research areas of system design and system verification, which tie together research in formal verification of CPS with research on knowledge representation and reasoning in multi-agent systems:

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Visible to the public Multiple-Level Predictive Control of Mobile Cyber Physical Systems with Correlated Context

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With the increasing popularity of mobile computing, cyber physical systems are merging into major mobile systems of our society, such as public transportation, supply chain systems, health and wellness, and taxi networks. Mobile CPSs interact with phenomena of interest at different locations and environments, and where the context information (e.g., network availability and connectivity) about these physical locations might not be available.

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Visible to the public Provably Safe Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems with Humans-in-the-Loop

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This project focuses on the formal design of semi-autonomous automotive Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Rather than disconnecting the driver from the vehicle, the goal is to obtain a vehicle where the degree of autonomy is continuously changed in real-time as a function of certified uncertainty ranges in driver behavior and environment reconstruction.

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Visible to the public Science of Cyber-Physical System Integration

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The objective of this project is to develop a science of integration for cyber physical systems (CPS). The proposed research program has three focus areas: (1) foundations, (2) tools and tool architectures, (3) systems/experimental research. The project has pushed along several frontiers towards these overall objectives. In the following, we describe selected accomplishments:

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Visible to the public Safe Collaborating Intelligent Vehicles: Synchronized Clocks

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Our objective is to engineer vehicles that can collaborate on the use of a roadway. The protocols that define the collaboration must be provably safe, and the implementations of the protocols by different manufacturers must be guaranteed to inter-operate. As an example we are using a collaborative merge protocol, that assists a driver merging between two vehicles in an adjacent lane.

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Visible to the public Robustness Guided Testing and Verification for Cyber-Physical Systems

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This project develops a theoretical framework as well as software tools to support testing and verification of a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) within a Model-Based Design (MBD) process. The theoretical bases of the framework are stochastic optimization methods, and robustness notions of formal specification languages.

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Visible to the public Smart Flexible Camera Sheet: Ultra-thin Semantic-guided Cooperative Micro-camera Array

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Our proposed research is motivated by two fundamental challenges that are traditionally studied in separate disciplines. The first key challenge is that in existing digital cameras, the functionalities of a camera are constrained by its size due to the optics and quantum nature of light. It remains a challenge to design a camera architecture that has both - a small form factor and has versatile functionalities, e.g.