This project advances the scientific knowledge on design methods for improving the resilience of civil infrastructures to disruptions. To improve resilience, critical services in civil infrastructure sectors must utilize new diagnostic tools and control algorithms that ensure survivability in the presence of both security attacks and random faults, and also include the models of incentives of human decision makers in the design process.

Performance monitoring data (e.g., measurements, logs, events) are becoming increasingly accessible and abundant (in terms of cost and availability) in modern distributed complex systems such as computer systems and networks, integrated buildings, industrial systems, transportation networks and power-grids. With efficient exploration of such data, health monitoring, diagnosis and prognosis can be greatly improved beyond the current state-of-the-art.

The recent increase in the variety and usage of wearable sensing systems allows for the continuous monitoring of health and wellness of users. The output of these systems enable individuals to make changes to their personal routines in order to minimize exposures to pollutants and maintain healthy levels of exercise. Furthermore, medical practitioners are using these systems to monitor proper activity levels for rehabilitation purposes and to monitor threatening conditions such as heart arrhythmias.

Our research addresses urgent challenges in high confidence testing of automotive systems due to on-going and anticipated introduction of advanced, connected, and autonomous vehicle technologies.  We pursue the development of tools for maneuver and data optimization to determine test trajectories and scenarios to facilitate vehicle testing.   Our approaches exploit game theoretic traffic interaction modeling to inform in-traffic relevant trajectories, model-free optimization to identify trajectories falsifying time domain specifications, and the development of Smart Black Box

The Robotarium is a remotely accessible multi-robot platform. And, safety is of central importance to the successful realization of any remote-access test-bed and failure to enforce safety could result in injury in local operators and damaged equipment.

Our  proposal’s main objective is to realize cyber-physical platform and principles for (i) interrogating global modalities of intracellular transport with causative factors isolated at the single-molecule scale and (ii) realizing efficient and robust infrastructure for transporting micron/molecular scale cargo using distributed strategies We are realizing  in-vitro, a transport network with roadways formed by microtubules where motorproteins, kinesin and dynein, will form vehicles ferrying cargo.

The electric power grid is a complex cyber-physical system (CPS) that forms the lifeline of modern society. Cybersecurity and resiliency of the power grid is of paramount importance to national security and economic well-being. CPS security testbeds are enabling technologies that provide realistic experimental platforms for the evaluation and validation of security technologies within controlled environments, and they also enable the exploration of robust security solutions.