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

Submitted by Mani Govin on Thu, 10/24/2013 - 3:41pm. Contributors:

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The electric power grid is a complex cyber-physical system (CPS), whose reliable and secure operation is of paramount importance to national security and economic vitality. There is a growing and evolving threat of cyber-based attacks, both in numbers and sophistication, on the nation's critical infrastructures. Therefore, cyber security - encompassing attack prevention, detection, mitigation, and resilience - is critical in today's power grid and the emerging smart grid.

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Visible to the public Real-Time, Simulation-based Planning and Asynchronous Coordination for Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by bekris on Thu, 10/24/2013 - 2:59pm. Contributor:

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Towards the development of robust cyber-physical systems, this project has developed solutions for planning and coordinating the motions of individual and networks of autonomous systems. This work is inspired by related challenges and techniques in algorithmic motion planning, multi-agent systems, sensor networks, learning and control. The focus of the project has been on the following tasks during the period 2012-2013:

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Visible to the public Plug-and-Play Cyber-Physical Systems to Enable Intelligent Buildings

Submitted by jianghai on Thu, 10/24/2013 - 1:35pm. Contributors:

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Despite their importance within the energy sector, buildings have not kept pace with technological improvements and particularly the evolution of intelligent features. A primary obstacle in enabling intelligent buildings is their highly distributed and diverse nature.

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Visible to the public Achieving High-Resolution Situational Awareness in Ultra-Wide-Area Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by Hairong Qi on Thu, 10/24/2013 - 10:43am. Contributors:

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Motivation: Energy infrastructure is a critical underpinning of modern society. To ensure its reliable operation, a nation--wide or continent--wide situational awareness system is essential to provide high--resolution understanding of the system dynamics such that proper actions can be taken in real--time in response to power system disturbances and to avoid cascading blackouts. The power grid represents a typical highly dynamic cyber--physical system (CPS).

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Visible to the public Diagnostics and Prognostics Using Temporal Causal Models for Cyber Physical Systems – A Case of Smart Electric Grid

Submitted by gabor on Thu, 10/24/2013 - 8:37am. Contributors:

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Motivation: Reliable and resilient operation of cyber-physical systems (CPS) of societal importance such as Smart Electric Grids is critical. Efficient models and tools to perform timely fault diagnostics and prognostics are needed for curtailing systemic failures such as power blackouts. Varying system state caused by the fluctuating power consumption, dynamic control actions, physical component degradation, and interactions with possible software anomalies make the failure analysis, prediction, and mitigation difficult.

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Visible to the public Provably Safe Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems with Humans-in-the-Loop

Submitted by fborrelli on Wed, 10/23/2013 - 4:34pm. Contributors:

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This project focuses on the formal design of semi-autonomous automotive Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Rather than disconnecting the driver from the vehicle, the goal is to obtain a vehicle where the degree of autonomy is continuously changed in real-time as a function of certified uncertainty ranges in driver behavior and environment reconstruction.

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Visible to the public Coordinated Resource Management of Cyber-Physical-Social Power Systems

Submitted by Duncan Callaway on Wed, 10/23/2013 - 3:16pm. Contributors:

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Critical infrastructure systems - electricity grids, transportation networks, gas and water distribution networks - serve the needs of millions of people with extraordinary reliability. These large-scale systems comprise 106 108 individual elements (humans and hardware) whose actions are inconsequential in isolation but profoundly important in aggregate. This proposal focuses on coordination of these elements in smart infrastructure systems with integrated ubiquitous sensing, communications, computation, and control.

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Visible to the public Distributed Asynchronous Algorithms & Software Systems For Wide-Area Monitoring of Power Systems

Submitted by aranya on Wed, 10/23/2013 - 10:35am. Contributors:

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The objective of this NSF-CPS Synergy proposal is to develop a distributed algorithmic framework, supported by a highly fault-tolerant software system, for executing critical transmission-level operations of the North American power grid using gigantic volumes of Synchrophasor data.