CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: The Cyber-Physical Challenges of Transient Stability and Security in Power Grids
Lead PI:
Ian Dobson
Abstract
The national transmission networks that deliver high voltage electric power underpin our society and are central to the ongoing transformation of the American energy infrastructure. Transmission networks are very large and complicated engineering systems, and "keeping the lights on" as the transformation of the American energy infrastructure proceeds is a fundamental engineering challenge involving both the physical aspects of the equipment and the cyber aspects of the controls, communications, and computers that run the system.
Performance Period: 01/01/2012 - 08/31/2015
Institution: Iowa State University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1219917
Abstract
This proposal requests travel funds from NSF to assist 50 US students to participate in IROS 2011, which will be held in San Francisco, CA, Sep. 25-30, 2011. The purpose of this Group Travel Grant Proposal is to make it possible for US students and postdocs to attend the conference, present their work, and forge connections with colleagues from around the world.
This year mark the 50th anniversary of robotics.
Performance Period: 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2012
Institution: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1153994
EAGER: Centralized Control of Large-Scale Distributed Sensor/Actuator Networks: Self-organizing Amorphous Facades
Lead PI:
Nikolaus Correll
Abstract
This project, investigating active building facades that proactively contribute to energy conservation by changing their opacity and air permeability as a function of environmental and user parameters, promises to contribute strongly to both the cyber and physical sciences. Often energy is wasted when parts of a building are heated or cooled, but are not actually used, or when they are actively cooled if simply opening a window would suffice.
Nikolaus Correll
Nikolaus is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 2009, with joint appointments in Aerospace, Electrical and Materials engineering. Nikolaus obtained his PhD from EPFL and did a 2-year post-doc at MIT CSAIL. He is the reciepient of a 2012 NSF CAREER and NASA Early Career Faculty fellowship.
Performance Period: 03/15/2012 - 02/28/2014
Institution: University of Colorado at Boulder
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1153158
Abstract
This project, holding a two-day workshop which will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines to articulate the challenges involved in Vertical Farming, will invigorate the research community. Vertical Farming is an indoor, urban farming concept that solves many energy problems associated with outdoor farming. Recent implementations have shown very high yields in the production vegetables, including green peppers and tomatoes, spinach and lettuce.
Performance Period: 10/01/2011 - 09/30/2012
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1152110
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EAGER: Linguistic Task Transfer for Humans and Cyber Systems
Lead PI:
Michael Stilman
Abstract
This project, investigating formal languages as a general methodology for task transfer between distinct cyber-physical systems such as humans and robots, aims to expand the science of cyber physical systems by developing Motion Grammars that will enable task transfer between distinct systems.
Formal languages are tools for encoding, describing and transferring structured knowledge. In natural language, the latter process is called communication. Similarly, we will develop a formal language through which arbitrary cyber-physical systems communicate tasks via structured actions.
Performance Period: 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2013
Institution: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1146352
Abstract
This grant supports the 2nd CPS National Principal Investigators Meeting, held August 1-2, 2011, at the Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, Maryland. The purpose of this meeting is to review research progress, enhance research interaction among projects funded under the NSF Cyber-Physical Systems program, and to provide a forum for stakeholders in academia, industry and federal agencies to review new developments in CPS foundations and domains. It provides an opportunity for the CPS community to promote new, emerging applications, and to collectively identify technology gaps and barriers.
Performance Period: 08/01/2011 - 07/31/2012
Institution: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1145923
EAGER: Ensemble Design of Resource-Aware Control Strategies for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
Lead PI:
M. Ani Hsieh
Abstract
This project, generalizing mean-field approaches from physics and chemistry for integrated design of scalable, network resource aware, distributed control strategies for multi-agent robotic systems, aims to develop macroscopic models that retain salient features of the underlying multi-agent robotic system and use these models in the design of distributed control strategies.
Performance Period: 09/01/2011 - 06/30/2014
Institution: Drexel University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1143941
CAREER: Algorithms and Verification for Reliable Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems
Lead PI:
Sayan Mitra
Abstract
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are becoming the key enabler in many engineering domains from traffic management to autonomous vehicles. Concurrency, failures, and their interactions with the physical environment make it challenging to wrestle a high level of confidence from such systems.
Performance Period: 02/01/2011 - 01/31/2018
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1054247
Abstract
The Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization (CPS-VO) was founded by NSF in 2010 to: (i) facilitate and foster interaction and exchanges among CPS PIs and their teams; (ii) enable sharing of artifacts and knowledge generated by the projects with the broader engineering and scientific communities; and (iii) facilitate and foster collaboration and information exchange between CPS researchers and industry. During the last five years, the CPS-VO has become the focal point of the CPS community in the US and it has played a significant role in catalyzing CPS research world-wide.
Janos Sztipanovits
Dr. Janos Sztipanovits is currently the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is founding director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS). His current research interest includes the foundation and applications of Model-Integrated Computing for the design of Cyber Physical Systems. His other research contributions include structurally adaptive systems, autonomous systems, design space exploration and systems-security co-design technology. He served as program manager and acting deputy director of DARPA/ITO between 1999 and 2002 and he was member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board between 2006-2010. He was founding chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Software (SIGBED). Dr. Sztipanovits was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2000 and external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2010. He graduated (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technical University of Budapest in 1970 and received his doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Performance Period: 10/01/2015 - 09/30/2020
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1521617
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CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Collaborative Vehicular Systems
Lead PI:
Georgios Fainekos
Abstract
As self-driving cars are introduced into road networks, the overall safety and efficiency of the resulting traffic system must be established and guaranteed. Numerous critical software-related recalls of existing automotive systems indicate that current design practices are not yet up to this challenge. This project seeks to address this problem, by developing methods to analyze and coordinate networks of fully and partially self-driving vehicles that interact with conventional human-driven vehicles on roads.
Performance Period: 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2017
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1446730