Posters (Sessions 8 & 11)

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Visible to the public Online Robust PCA for Malicious Attack-Resilient Wide Area Monitoring

This poster presents a method for detecting and correcting malicious data corruptions in PMU measurements. Detection of malicious injections is formulated as a compressed sensing problem and the actual signals are recovered using an online robust PCA-based algorithm. Different patterns of malicious injection attacks on PMU data are considered and the effect of corruption and reconstruction using the algorithm is analyzed on wide-area mode metering application. The performance of the proposed algorithm has been evaluated with different subspace selection.

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Visible to the public Novel Algorithmic Techniques for Drone Flight Planning on a Large Scale

Good algorithmic foundations for flight planning on the scale required for managing dense urban drone traffic we can expect to see in the future are currently still missing. This project provides prototype algorithms for managing this dense drone traffic. The project develops a concept for a coordination system that is able to find collision-free paths for a large number of flying unmanned air vehicles of different size and capability. It uses a hierarchical approach, combining centralized and local coordination, to manage complexity for a largescale problem.

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Visible to the public Multi-Scale Planning in Robot Teams for Persistent Monitoring and Intervention in Precision Grazing

Recent years have seen a rapid influx of autonomy in critical agricultural sectors. Many applications of autonomy in agriculture are restricted to passive data collection and remote monitoring. At the same time, there are fundamentally important problems that remain relatively untreated by recent thrusts in autonomous precision agriculture. This project lies precisely at the intersection of important theoretical challenges in robotic planning and perception, and critical frontiers in agriculture.

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Visible to the public Multi-Sensory Event Detection for Cross-Platform Coordination and Verification

With electronic devices increasingly interacting with each other and with the physical world around them, device behavior is becoming more and more like human behavior, namely reliant on experiences and not just data. Hence, there's a disconnect between how most devices have been engineered and what what practitioners are expecting them to do, and because of this fact, there's also a disconnect between the common cyber-security protections that protect data and some of the desirable proofs and verifications that can be highly valuable to cyber-physical devices.

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Visible to the public Muscle Synergies as the Basis for the Control of a Hand Prothesis

In this ongoing study, we are exploring the suitability of a novel technique based on the estimation of muscle synergies to control a hand prosthesis. The objective of the study is to predict thirteen distinct hand grasp movements using EMG data.

The method relies on projecting the EMG data using a basis derived via analysis of the muscle synergies.

Five healthy subjects performed a set of thirteen distinct hand grasp movements while sEMG data from seven muscles have been recorded.

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Visible to the public Multi-Resolution Model and Context Aware Information Networking for Cooperative Vehicle Efficiency and Safety Systems

Large scale deployment of connected and automated vehicles is impeded by significant technical and scientific gaps, especially when it comes to achieving real-time and high accuracy situational awareness for cooperating vehicles. This CAREER project aims at closing these gaps through developing fundamental information networking methodologies for coordinated control of automated systems. These methodologies are based on the innovative concept of modeled knowledge propagation. The approach is to utilize the novel concepts of model communication and its derived multi-resolution networking.

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Visible to the public Modular Power Orchestration at the Meso-scale

Energy storage and power distribution comprise an integral part of the engineered systems that play critical roles in people's everyday lives, including transportation, utility, health, and security. However, in today's cyber-physical platforms, the generation, storage, allocation, and distribution of energy among modules is often managed in a haphazard and rigid manner that is fixed at the system design stage.