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Visible to the public Power Distribution System for Continuous Operation

Submitted by NinaM on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:36am. Contributor:

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Success of numerous long-term robotic network missions in space, air, ground, and water is measured by the ability of the robots to operate for extended time in highly dynamic and potentially hazardous operating environments. The proposed work responds to the urgency for development of innovative mobile power distribution systems that lower deployment and operating costs, while simultaneously increasing mission efficiency, and supporting the network's need to be responsive to changing physical conditions.

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Visible to the public Human-Machine Interaction with Mobility Enhancing Soft Exosuits

Submitted by walshharvard on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:36am. Contributors:

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Stroke is the major cause of disability in adults in the western world, often resulting in hemiparesis and severe mobility impairments. Recently, rigid exoskeletons have been introduced for clinic-based gait rehabilitation: these systems can apply high levels of assistance, but also introduce kinematic restrictions and significant additional mass to the patient. As such, these devices are well suited to patients with little to no residual mobility (e.g.

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Visible to the public CRII: CPS: Safe Cyber-Physical Systems Upgrades

Submitted by ttj on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:36am. Contributor:

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Cyber-physical systems (CPS) encompass the next generation of computerized control for countless aspects of the physical world and interactions thereof. The typical engineering process for CPS reuses existing designs, models, components, and software from one version to the next.

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Visible to the public Active Regression for Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by zhangbao on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:36am. Contributors:

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One defining feature of cyberphysical systems is the fact that human users are closely intertwined with the physical system. Yet both the system and users themselves are often do not explicitly know how users would behave. A natural question arises: How do we design cyberphysical systems that effectively learn about their users, and optimize system behavior accordingly? This poster presents the idea of active regression as a vehicle to learn about users.

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Visible to the public A Mathematical Theory of Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by Edward Lee on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:36am. Contributors:

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Overview. The fundamental challenge in cyber-physical systems is the confluence of distinct scientific and engineering models, methods, and tools for cyber and physical systems. Cyber systems are primarily about processing information, formally modeled as patterns of bits. Physical systems are primarily about structure and dynamics, the evolution of the state of the system in time. There are certainly connections between these models, methods, and tools.

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Visible to the public A Unified System Theoretic Framework for Cyber Attack-Resilient Power Grid

Submitted by Umesh Vaidya on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:36am. Contributors:

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We developed a systematic analytical and computational framework for the vulnerability analysis and mitigation of data integrity attacks on Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) employed for wide area monitoring and control of power system. The analytical framework is based on the stability theory of stochastic dynamical system and it allows one to systematically determine the PMUs most critical to power network security.

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Visible to the public Learning Control Sharing Strategies for Assistive Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:36am. Contributors:

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People with upper extremity disabilities are gaining increased independence through the use of assistive robotic arms, but performing tasks that require many small precise movements remains difficult. In fact, a confounding factor is that the more severe a person's motor impairment, the more limited are the control interfaces available to them to operate the system.

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Visible to the public CPS: Synergy: Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices

Submitted by Addisu Taddese on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 5:36am. Contributors:

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This project develops an integrated design and simulation environment for the creation of miniature capsule robots (MCRs). An MCR is a biocompatible Cyber-Physical System (CPS) designed to operate in the human body to accomplish diagnostic or therapeutic tasks (e.g., colonoscopy, abdominal surgery, etc.). A typical MCR has to fulfill three main constraints: safety, low power operation and small size. Advances in miniaturization of electronic devices have made MCRs a reality.