CPS-PI Meeting 2018

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

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:50pm. Contributor:

Assistive machines such as robotic arms and powered wheelchairs promote independence and ability in those with severe motor impairments. As the field of assistive robotics progresses rapidly, these devices are becoming more capable and dextrous and as a result, higher dimensional and harder to control. The dimensionality mismatch between high-dimensional robots and low-dimensional control interfaces requires the control space to be partitioned into control modes. For full control of the robot the user switches between these partitions and this is known as mode switching.

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Visible to the public Internet-Inspired Autonomous Electric Vehicle Charging

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:50pm. Contributors:

Electric vehicles (EVs) are transforming the modern transportation and energy systems. With a growing EV market, the mass penetration of EVs into the utility grid will result in detrimental effects due to coincidence between utility peak power loading and EV charging. This impact will include increased peak loading and voltage drops that will call for over-investments in the network resulting in an overall high cost for the society.

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Visible to the public Internet of Wearable E-Textiles for Telemedicine

Submitted by Kunal Mankodiya on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:50pm. Contributors:

Abstract: With nearly 10 million individuals carrying a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease across the globe. Individuals with Parkinson's disease experience tremors, rigidity, slowness of movement, and difficulties with walking and driving. Currently these individuals are required to attend weekly visits to the doctor's office for consistent reassessment regarding progression of the disease.

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Visible to the public Ionic Liquid and Amorphous Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Interactions: Towards a New Programmable Neuromorphic Platform

Submitted by Philip Brisk on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:50pm. Contributors:

This project will design and implement a domain-specific language and compiler for microfluidic laboratory-on-a-chip (LoC) devices based on electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWoD) technology. The Lead PI's team has designed and implemented BioScript, a domain-specific programming language for programmable microfluidics. The BioScript syntax is programmer friendly, with the intention of being accessible to biologists and other researchers and practitioners in the life sciences.

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Visible to the public Internet of Self-Powered Sensors: Towards a Scalable Long-Term Condition-based Monitoring & Maintenance of Civil Infrastructure

Submitted by Shantanu Chakraba... on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:50pm. Contributors:

This is a collaborative research project between Washington University in St. Louis, Michigan State University and University of Nevada Reno and is investigating a cyber-physical framework for scalable, long-term monitoring and condition-based maintenance of civil infrastructures. Civil infrastructure constitutes a network of interdependent systems and utilities (e.g., highways, bridges, rail systems, buildings) that are necessary for supporting social and economic activities.

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Visible to the public Intelligent Agent Incident Command System

Submitted by Subhashini Ganapathy on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:50pm. Contributors:

Within hazard and disaster response and recovery management, the National Incident Management System (NIMS) has become the dominant organizational model for incident response. The Incident Command System (ICS) provides report and operational templates that structure activities and resources during an incident or event. In an emergency situation, information can be sometimes contradictory and may even not be "clean".

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Visible to the public Integrated Control of Biological and Mechanical Power for Standing Balance and Gait Stability after Paralysis

Submitted by Roger Quinn on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:50pm. Contributors:

Abstract: This project is addressing how cyber physical walking systems (CPWS) can be designed to be safe, secure, and resilient despite a variety of unanticipated disturbances and how real-time dynamic control and behavior adaptation can be achieved in a diversity of environments.

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Visible to the public Influencing Human Robot Teams

Submitted by dorsa on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 5:50pm. Contributors:

Teams comprised of both humans and robots are increasingly becoming a reality. A key barrier to enabling teams fluently working together is that leadership roles of humans and robots are often determined a priori. In successful human-human teams, we find that leadership is an emergent behavior where team members can adaptively take, give up, or share leadership based on changing tasks or environments. To create human-robot teams capable of long-term interactions in dynamically changing environments, they need to be able to fluidly adapt leader and follower roles.