Critical Infrastructure

Applications of CPS technologies essential for the functioning of a society and economy.
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Visible to the public Multi-Agent Control of Intelligent Power Distribution Systems

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The project will demonstrate a Holonic Multi-agent System Architecture capable of adaptively controlling future electrical power distribution systems (PDS), 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 Resilient Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks

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Wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSAN) are systems consisting of numerous sensing and actuation devices that interact with the environment and coordinate their activities over a wireless communication network. WSANs represent an important class of cyber-physical system (CPS) found in our national civil infrastructure. This project addresses the issue of resilience in WSANs.

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Visible to the public Sensing as a Service - Architectures for Closed-loop Sensor Network Virtualization

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The goal of this project is to demonstrate that new cyber physical architectures will enable closed--loop sensor networks to be shared among multiple applications and to dynamically allocate sensing and computing resources necessary to analyze sensor data and perform sensor actuation.

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Visible to the public Scalable Component-based Model Revision of Cyber-Physical Systems with Separation of Concerns

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As part of our CPS project, we have focused on the problem of model repair for cyber-physical systems. This work involves identifying constraints caused due to physical components during revision. We consider four types of constraints cyber-cyber, cyber-physical, physical-cyber and physical-physical. Based on the complexity limitations caused by these constraints we are developing efficient heuristics to mitigate the cost of model repair. We have also focused on extending revision to code level.

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Visible to the public SMARTER -Smart Manager for Adaptive and Real-Time decisions in building clustERs

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Traditionally, buildings have been viewed as mere energy consumers; however, with the new power grid infrastructure and distributed energy resources, buildings can not only consume energy, but they can also output energy. As a result, this project removes traditional boundaries between buildings in the same cluster or between the cluster and power grids, transforming individual smart buildings into NetZero building clusters enabled by cyber-support tools.

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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.

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Visible to the public Towards Secure Networked Cyber-Physical Systems: A Theoretic Framework with Bounded Rationality

Securing critical networked cyber-physical systems (NCPSs) such as the power grid or transportation systems has emerged as a major national and global priority. The networked nature of such systems renders them vulnerable to a range of attacks both in cyber and physical domains as corroborated by recent threats such as the Energetic Bear virus.