CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Remote Imaging of Community Ecology via Animal-borne Wireless Networks
Lead PI:
Nuno Martins
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This project will construct a wireless network of animal-borne embedded devices that will be deployed and tested in a biologically-relevant application. The networked devices will provide not only geo-location data, but also execute cooperative strategies that save battery-life by selectively recording bandwidth-intensive audio and high-definition video footage of occurrences of animal group behavior of interest, such as predation.
This project comprises three concurrent and interdependent research themes.
Performance Period: 09/15/2011 - 08/31/2017
Institution: University of Maryland College Park
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1135726
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A CPS is a system in which computer-based (cyber) technology is combined with all kinds of physical systems, such as planes and robotic-surgeons. CPSs require integration (in industry and academia) of different types of knowledge from many different domains. CPSs are built from often inaccurate, undependable components, and operate in harsh and unpredictable environments. The cyber domain, interfaces, and the physical domain are tightly interwoven and networked (distributed) and hence cannot be designed and optimized individually.
Performance Period: 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2016
Institution: University of California-Irvine
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1136146
CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Efficient Mapping and Management of Applications onto Cyber-Physical Systems
Lead PI:
Margaret Martonosi
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The computing landscape is a richly-heterogeneous space including both fixed and mobile nodes with a large variety of sensing, actuation and computational capabilities (including mobile devices, home electronics, taxis, robotic drones, etc.). Cyber-physical applications built on these devices have the potential to gather data on, analyze, and adapt to or control a range of environments.
Performance Period: 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2016
Institution: Princeton University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1135953
CPS:Medium:Collaborative Research: Smart Power Systems of the Future: Foundations for Understanding Volatility and Improving Operational Reliability
Lead PI:
Sean Meyn
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This project addresses the impact of the integration of renewable intermittent generation in a power grid. This includes the consideration of sophisticated sensing, communication, and actuation capabilities on the system's reliability, price volatility, and economic and environmental efficiency. Without careful crafting of its architecture, the future smart grid may suffer from a decrease in reliability. Volatility of prices may increase, and the source of high prices may be more difficult to identify because of undetectable strategic policies.
Performance Period: 10/01/2011 - 12/31/2012
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1135598
CPS: Medium: Quantitative Visual Sensing of Dynamic Behaviors for Home-based Progressive Rehabilitation
Lead PI:
Yun Fu
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The objective of this research is to develop a comprehensive theoretical and experimental cyber-physical framework to enable intelligent human-environment interaction capabilities by a synergistic combination of computer vision and robotics.
Performance Period: 12/01/2011 - 02/28/2013
Institution: SUNY at Buffalo
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1135660
NSF-CPS-Medium: Collaborative Research: Design and development of a cybernetic exoskeleton for hand-wrist rehabilitation through the integration of human passive properties
Lead PI:
Marcia O'Malley
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Robotic devices are excellent candidates for delivering repetitive and intensive practice that can restore functional use of the upper limbs, even years after a stroke. Rehabilitation of the wrist and hand in particular are critical for recovery of function, since hands are the primary interface with the world. However, robotic devices that focus on hand rehabilitation are limited due to excessive cost, complexity, or limited functionality. A design and control strategy for such devices that bridges this gap is critical.
Performance Period: 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2016
Institution: William Marsh Rice University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1135916
CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Holistic Design Methodology for Automated Implementation of Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems
Lead PI:
Taskin Padir
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This project develops a framework for design automation of cyber-physical systems to augment human interaction with complex systems that integrate across computational and physical environments. As a design driver, the project develops a Body/Brain Computer Interface (BBCI) for the population of functionally locked-in individuals, who are unable to interact with the physical world through movement and speech.
Performance Period: 09/15/2011 - 08/31/2016
Institution: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1135854
CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Credible Autocoding and Verification of Embedded Software (CrAVES)
Lead PI:
Eric Feron
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The CrAVES project seeks to lay down intellectual foundations for credible autocoding of embedded systems, by which graphical control system specifications that satisfy given open-loop and closed-loop properties are automatically transformed into source code guaranteed to satisfy the same properties. The goal is that the correctness of these codes can be easily and independently verified by dedicated proof checking systems. During the autocoding process, the properties of control system specifications are transformed into proven assertions explicitly written in the resulting source code.
Performance Period: 09/15/2011 - 08/31/2015
Institution: National Science Foundation
Sponsor: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Award Number: 1135955
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Components, Run-time Substrates, and Systems: Medium: Holonic Multi-Agent Control of Intelligent Power Distribution Systems
Lead PI:
Anil Pahwa
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Holonic Multi-Agent Control of Intelligent Power Distribution Systems
This project will demonstrate a Holonic Multiagent System Architecture capable of adaptively controlling future electrical power distribution systems (PDS), which are expected to include a large number of renewable power generators, energy storage devices, and advanced metering and control devices. The project will produce a general, extensible, and secure cyber architecture based on holonic multiagent principles to support adaptive PDS.
Performance Period: 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2016
Institution: Kansas State University
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1136040
Collaborative Research: Holistic Design Methodology for Automated Implementation of Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems
Lead PI:
Gunar Schirner
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This project develops a framework for design automation of cyber-physical systems to augment human interaction with complex systems that integrate across computational and physical environments. As a design driver, the project develops a Body/Brain Computer Interface (BBCI) for the population of functionally locked-in individuals, who are unable to interact with the physical world through movement and speech.
Gunar Schirner
Gunar Schirner holds a Ph.D. degree (2008) and a M.S. degree (2005) in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He graduated in computer engineering from the Berufsakademie Berlin, Germany, in 1998. Prior to joining the Northeastern faculty in fall 2009, he was an assistant project scientist at the Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS) at the University of California, Irvine. Gunar Schirner also has 5 years of industry experience at Alcatel (now Alcatel-Lucent) where he designed distributed embedded real-time software for telecommunication products. His research interests include embedded system modeling, system-level design, and the synthesis of embedded software.
Performance Period: 09/15/2011 - 08/31/2015
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award Number: 1136027
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