CPS Domains

The terms denote engineering domains that have high CPS content.
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Visible to the public CPS: Synergy: High-Fidelity, Scalable, Open-Access Cyber Security Testbed for Accelerating Smart Grid Innovations & Deployments

Cybersecurity and resiliency of the power grid is of paramount importance to national security and economic well-being. CPS security testbeds are enabling technologies that provide realistic experimental platforms for the evaluation and validation of security technologies within controlled environments. In this regard, the following are the key objectives of the project:

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Visible to the public CPS: Frontier: Collaborative Research: bioCPS for Engineering Living Cells

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Our overall aim in this project is to synthesize desired behaviors in populations of bacterial and mammalian cells. To this goal, we define the basis of a next-generation CPS called biological CPS (bioCPS). The enabling technologies are synthetic biology and micron-scale mobile robotics. Synthetic gene circuits for decision making and local communication among the cells are automatically synthesized using a Bio- Design Automation (BDA) workflow.

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Visible to the public Towards Effective and Efficient Sensing-Motion Co-Design of Swarming Cyber-Physical Systems

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The overall research objective of the project is to establish and demonstrate a generic motion sensing co-design procedure that significantly reduces the complexity of mission design for swarming CPS, and greatly facilitates the development of effective and efficient control and sensing strategies.

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Visible to the public Remote Imaging of Community Ecology via Animal-borne Wireless Networks

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This project features conception, design, and deployment of a wireless network of embedded devices, for monitoring the behavior of animals in the wild. The system is being deployed and tested in biologically relevant scenarios.

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Visible to the public CPS: Breakthrough: Collaborative: Securing Smart Grid by Understanding Communications Infrastructure Dependencies

Overview: The existence of complex interactions and interdependencies in cyber-physical critical infrastructures is well known, but a poorly understood phenomena. As an example, a smart grid (SG) is dependent on the cyber infrastructure for advanced metering, data collection/analytics and control, and this dependency brings in serious security and vulnerability implications.

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Visible to the public Enhanced Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure by Observing and Controlling Loads using Cyber-Physical Systems

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The goal of this research project is to create a scalable and robust cyber-physical system (CPS) framework for the observation and control of the functional interdependencies between bridge structures (stationary physical systems) and trucks (mobile physical agents). Figure 1 shows the architecture of the proposed CPS framework for the observation and control of truck loads imposed on highway bridges. While many accomplishments have been achieved during the first year of the project, this poster pres

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

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This highly interdisciplinary research addresses two fundamental challenges in image sensing and image understanding: 1) versatile camera systems in a small form factor, and 2) 3-dimensional scene and object recognition from 2-dimensional photos. These fundamental challenges are tackled together by developing a cyber-physical imaging system, called a smart flexible camera sheet, which integrates an array of many micro-cameras (each millimeters in size) onto a thin substrate.

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Visible to the public WARP: Wide Area Resilient Protection

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Protective relays play a crucial role in steering the dynamics of the electric grid during stressed system conditions. However, as some blackout logs have shown, relay mis-operations during stressed conditions can trigger a cascade eventually leading to a blackout. Currently, there is no way to correct such mis-operations, should they occur. We propose the use of wide-area information to supervise relay operation, especially those attached to generator units and critical transmission lines.