2015

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Visible to the public Methodologies for Engineering with Plug-and-Learn Components: Synthesis and Analysis Across Abstraction Layers

Submitted by John Gallagher on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 4:36am. Contributors:

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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that modify themselves to improve performance or repair damage often recast the modular relationships among system components that enable Verification and Validation (V&V). We focus on in-flight control adaptation of damaged Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FW-MAV).

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Visible to the public Secure, Open-Access Multi-Robot Systems

Submitted by Magnus Egerstedt on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 4:36am. Contributors:

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This project addresses the safety and security issues that arise when giving users remote-access to a multi-robot research test-bed, where mobile robots can coordinate their behaviors in a collaborative manner. Through a public interface, users are able to schedule, and subsequently upload, their own code and run their experiments, while being provided with the scientific data produced through the experiment.

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Visible to the public Maneuver and Data Optimization for High Confidence Testing of Future Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by Ella Atkins on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 3:42am. Contributors:

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This project addresses urgent challenges in high confidence validation and verification of automotive vehicles due to on-going and anticipated introduction of advanced, connected and autonomous vehicles into mass production. Since such vehicles operate across both physical and cyber domains, faults can occur in traditional physical components, in cyber components (i.e., algorithms, processors, networks, etc.), or in both.

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Visible to the public Learning to Walk - Optimal Gait Synthesis and Online Learning for Terrain-Aware Legged Locomotion

Submitted by AAmes on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 3:35am. Contributors:

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The goal of the proposed research is to advance the science of cyber-physical systems by more explicitly tying sensing, perception, and computing to the optimization and control of physical systems whose properties are variable and uncertain. The CPS platform to be studied is that of a bipedal robot locomoting over granular ground material with uncertain physical properties (sand, gravel, dirt, etc.).

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Visible to the public A Multi-Resolution Approach for Discovery and 3D Modeling of Archaeological Site Imagery and a UAV-Borne Camera

Submitted by macschwager on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 3:25am. Contributors:

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Many cyber-physical systems(CPS) deployed in a number of applications ranging from airport security systems and transportation systems to health-care and manufacturing rely on a wide variety of sensors for prediction and control. In many of these systems, acquisition of information requires the deployment and activation of physical sensors which can result in increased expense or delay.

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Visible to the public Cyber-Physical Manipulation (CPM): Locating Manipulating and Retrieving Large Objects with Large Populations of Robots

Submitted by macschwager on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 3:06am. Contributors:

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This project aims to develop the theory and technology for a new frontier in cyber-physical systems: cyber-physical manipulation. The ultimate goal of cyber-physical manipulation is to enable a group of hundreds or thousands of individual robotic agents to collaboratively explore an environment, manipulate objects in that environment, and transport those objects to desired locations.

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Visible to the public Event-Based Information Acquisition, Learning, and Control in High-Dimensional Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by Andrea Goldsmith on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 2:41am. Contributors:

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This year, we continued our research effort on designing optimal decentralized monitoring and control mechanisms for networked infrastructure systems providing demand response services by first focusing on the example of intelligent electric transportation systems. The results are highlighted in this poster. Electric Vehicles (EV) are emerging as one of the primary solutions to make electricity demand elastic.

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Visible to the public Driving Research: Advances in Methods

Submitted by Paul Green on Mon, 02/01/2016 - 2:28am. Contributors:

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At a high level, the goal of this project is to collect data on how drivers approach and drive through intersections. Research at the University of Michigan concerns the development of the driving simulator scenarios and testing human subjects. In addition, considerable related research is being conducted on research methods. At MIT, models based on the research at Michigan are being developed. This abstract concerns those part of the project conducted at the University of Michigan.

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Visible to the public CPS Medium: Collaborative Research: CyberMech, a Novel Run-Time Substrate for Cyber-Mechanical Systems

Submitted by Chris Gill on Sun, 01/31/2016 - 11:46pm. Contributors:

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Growing demands on our civil infrastructure have heightened the need for smart structural components and systems whose behavior and performance can be controlled under a variety of loading scenarios such as high winds and earthquakes.

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Visible to the public A Cyber-Physical Framework for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Guided Magnetic NanoParticles

Submitted by randallerb on Sun, 01/31/2016 - 10:40pm. Contributors:

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The goal of this project is to study the fundamental principles (dynamics and control) in using clinical magnetic techniques for accurately guiding agglomerations of magnetic nanoparticles in targeted drug delivery. The innovative technology component of this study is the dual use of the magnetic techniques as an imaging modality for both diagnostics and feedback control signal purposes and as a propulsion modality that generates the control forces to accurately guide agglomerations of magnetic nanoparticles.