Transportation

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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Visible to the public Security of Distributed Cyber-PSecurity of Distributed Cyber-Physical Systemshysical Systems with Connected Vehicle Applications

This project aims at accelerating the deployment of security measures for cyber-physical systems (CPSs) by proposing a framework that combines anomaly identification approaches, which emphasizes on the development of decentralized cyber-attack monitoring and diagnostic-like components, with robust control countermeasure to improve reliability and maintain system functionality. One of the main challenges for cyber physical systems is the security of transmitted data over the communication network.

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Visible to the public Cyber Physical Regional Freight Transportation

The purpose of this research is to develop optimization and control techniques and integrate them with real-time simulation models to achieve load balancing in complex networks. Our application case is the regional freight system. Freight moves on rail and road networks which are also shared by passengers. These networks today work independently, even though they are highly interdependent, and the result is inefficiencies in the form of congestion, pollution, and excess fuel consumption.

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Visible to the public CPS- Synergy- Collaborative Research- Managing Uncertainty in the Design of Safety-Critical Aviation Systems

The objective of this research is to create tools to manage uncertainty in the design and certification process of safety-critical aviation systems. The research focuses on three innovative ideas to support this objective. First, probabilistic techniques will be introduced to specify system-level requirements and bound the performance of dynamical components. These will reduce the design costs associated with complex aviation systems consisting of tightly integrated components produced by many independent engineering organizations.

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Visible to the public Adaptive Intelligence for Cyber-Physical Automotive Active Safety- System Design and Evaluation

Objective: The objective of this project is to improve the performance and current capabilities of automotive active safety control systems by taking into account the interactions between the driver, the vehicle, the active safety system and the environment. The current approach in the design of automotive active safety systems follows the philosophy "one size fits all," in the sense that active safety systems are the same for all vehicles and do not take into account the skills, habits and state of the human driver who may operate the vehicle.

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Visible to the public CPS- Synergy- Collaborative- TPP Option- Dynamic Methods of Traffic Control that Impact Quality of Life in Smart Cities

Traffic control management strategies have been largely focused on improving vehicular traffic flows on highways and freeways but arterials have not been used properly and pedestrians are mostly ignored. New urban arterial designs encourage modal shifts which gives further impetus to devise novel traffic control strategies to more quickly respond to changing conditions and salient events, while balancing safety and efficiency for all users.

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Visible to the public Safe Collaborative driving Systems

The objective of this project has been to apply the techniques developed for communications networks to collaborative, intelligent vehicles. The techniques are applied to a lane merge protocol that assists a driver who is merging between two vehicles in an adjacent lane.

The previous work that has been reported on this project includes: a multiple stack, layered architecture; a strategy for using synchronized clocks; and the probabilistic verification of protocols.

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Visible to the public Thermal Management of Cyber Physical Systems Poster.pptx

Modern cyber-physical systems are monitored and controlled by multi-core platforms, and thermal management of multi-core chips is critical as overheated cores thereon will suffer from exponentially decaying lifetime and unacceptable performance degradation. To meet the timing and system lifetime reliability requirements under dynamic workloads and operating environment, we need a real-time thermal management (RTM) scheme that predicts run-time temperature and actuates effective thermal control without compromising task deadlines.