Applications of CPS technologies used in the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.
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As technology pushes automation to greater degrees of autonomy, the verification and validation burden becomes more cost and time prohibitive. It has been well established that, as stated in AF Technology Horizons 2010, "It is possible to develop systems having high levels of autonomy, but it is the lack of suitable V&V methods that prevents all but relatively low levels of autonomy from being certified for use." This increased move towards further levels of autonomy has brought the certification need to a national level.
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Growing demands on our civil infrastructure have heightened the need for smart structural components and systems whose behavior and performance can be controlled under a variety of loading scenarios such as high winds and earthquakes.
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The project pursues two major goals addressing the verification of cyber-physical systems. Firstly, one goal of this project is to develop theory, practice, and applications of verification techniques for distributed hybrid systems with flexible system structures that can change by reconfiguring the system.
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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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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.
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Logical Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems
CPS are Multi-dynamical Systems
Dynamic Logic of Multi-dynamical Systems
Proofs for CPS
Theory of CPS
Soundness and Completeness
Differential Invariants
Applications
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Darren Cofer is a Principal Systems Engineer with Rockwell Collinsi Advanced Technology Center. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. His principal area of expertise is applying formal methods and tools to the verification and certification of high-integrity avionics systems. He is the principal investigator for the air vehicle team in DARPA's High Assurance Cyber Military Systems project, focusing on formal proof of security properties for unmanned air vehicles.
