The safety and performance of cyber-physical systems (CPS) depend crucially on control and scheduling decisions that often are fixed at design time, which significantly restricts the conditions under which a system can operate both safely and with suitable performance. Going beyond prior work that has explored different control and scheduling adaptations in individual system designs, this project will conduct more general and in-depth investigations, into how cyber-physical systems? control and scheduling can be co-designed to adapt jointly, automatically, dynamically, safely, and effectively even in response to rapid, large, and diverse changes in: (1) the system's controlled behavior; (2) its environment; (3) its physical components; and (4) its platform software and hardware. Our project will immerse multiple graduate students in cross-disciplinary research, with extensive education, training, and mentoring spanning computer science, control theory, natural hazards engineering, structural engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer engineering. We will also involve undergraduate students via summer REU supplements and in-semester mentored independent study projects for academic credit, and will leverage our existing initiatives and relationships with partner organizations for K-12 outreach. As we have done in each of our previous collaborations, our multi-university team will recruit, mentor, and retain participants from groups traditionally under-represented in science and technology fields, leveraging effective and established outreach programs at our institutions.
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Shirley Dyke
Professor Shirley J. Dyke holds a joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering at Purdue University. She is the Director of the NASA funded Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitat Institute (RETHi) and the Director of Purdue's Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Lab at Bowen Lab. Dyke is the past Editor-in-Chief of the journal Engineering Structures. Her research focuses on the development and implementation of “intelligent” structures, and her innovations encompass structural control technologies, structural health monitoring, real-time hybrid simulation, and machine learning and computer vision for structural damage assessment. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from NSF (1998), the George Housner Medal by ASCE (2022), the SHM Person of the Year Award (2021), the International Association on Structural Safety and Reliability Junior Research Award (2001) and the ANCRiSST Young Investigator Award (2006). She has also led many educational programs, including Research Experiences for Undergraduates, GK12, and the University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables. She holds a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1996. Dr. Dyke was the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and was on the faculty there from 1996 until 2009. She served as the Co-leader for Information Technology for the NSF-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) building a community-driven Cyberinfastructure Platform for the earthquake engineering community.
Performance Period: 04/15/2023 - 03/31/2026
Institution: Purdue University
Sponsor: NSF
Award Number: 2229136