Applications of CPS technologies used in the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical, and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.
Due to their increasing use by civil and federal authorities and vast commercial and amateur applications, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) will be introduced into the National Air Space (NAS); the question is only how this can be done safely. Today, NASA and the FAA are designing a new, (NextGen) automated air traffic control system for all aircraft, manned or unmanned. New algorithms and tools will need to be developed to enable computation of the complex questions inherent in designing such a system while proving adherence to rigorous safety standards. Researchers must develop the tools of formal analysis to be able to address the UAS in the NAS problem, reason about UAS integration during the design phase of NextGen, and tie this design to on-board capabilities to provide runtime System Health Management (SHM), ensuring the safety of people and property on the ground. This proposal takes a holistic view and integrates advances in the state of the art from three intertwined perspectives to address safe integration of unmanned systems into the national airspace: from on-board the vehicle, from the environment (NAS), and from the underlying theory enabling their formal analysis. There has been rapid development of new UAS technologies yet few of them are formally mathematically rigorous to the degree needed for FAA safety-critical system certification. This project bridges that gap, integrating new UAS and air traffic control designs with advances in formal analysis. Within the wealth of promising directions for autonomous UAS capabilities, this project fills a unique need, providing a direct synergy between on-board UAS SHM, the NAS environment in which they must operate, and the theoretical foundations common to both of these.
This research will help to build a safer NAS with increased capacity for UAS and create broadly impactful capabilities for SHM on-board UAS. Advancements will require theoretical research into more scalable model checking and debugging of safety properties. Safety properties express the sentiment that "something bad does not happen" during any system execution; they represent the vast majority of the requirements for NextGen designs and all requirements researchers can monitor on-board a UAS for system heath management during runtime. This research will tackle new frontiers in embedding health management capabilities on-board UAS. Collaborations with aerospace system designers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and tool designers at the Bruno Kessler Foundation will aid real-life utility and technology transfer. Broader impact will be achieved by involving undergraduate students in the design of an open-source, affordable, all-COTS and 3D-printable UAS, which will facilitate flight testing of this project's research advances. An open-UAS design for academia will be useful both for classroom demonstrations and as a research platform. Further impact will be achieved by using this UAS and the research it enables in interactive teaching experiences for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students and in mentoring outreach specifically targeted at girls achieving in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects.
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University of Cincinnati
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National Science Foundation
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HONET-ICT 2017
14th HONET-ICT International Conference "Smart Cities: Improving Quality of Life-Using ICT & IoT"
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DeCPS 2017
DeCPS Workshop on Challenges and New Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical System Engineering
Focus on Transportation of the Future
Event of the 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies Ada Europe
https://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~blieb/AE2017/workshops.html
16 June 2017 | Vienna, Austria | de-cps-2017.softeam-rd.eu
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ICESS 2017
14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS 2017)
Sydney, Australia | August 1-4, 2017 | http://www.stprp-activity.com/ICESS2017
Co-Located with IEEE TrustCom and IEEE BigDataSE
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2017
Final paper submission: June 1, 2017
As the fastest growing industry, embedded systems have great societal and environmental impacts.
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ICUAS'17
The 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'17)
The 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS'17, will be held in Miami, FL, on June 13-16. The conference venue is the Miami Marriott, Biscayne Bay hotel. The hotel is close to the Miami Arts, Wynwood and Design districts and just minutes from the Miami Beach Convention Center. It is the only marina-front downtown hotel with incredible bay views. ICUAS'17 is fully sponsored by the ICUAS Association, a non-profit organization.
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IUPT 2017
The 7th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things
A Brief Introduction
This symposium aims at gathering researchers from the fields of wireless networking and Internet applications to discuss new opportunities and hurdles to leverage the possibilities of new applications and services for the Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things.
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ECYPS 2017
5th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems (ECYPS’2017)
The 5th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems will be held in the scope of MECO’2017 - the 6th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, in Bar Montenegro, June 11-17, 2017. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are smart compound systems engineered through seamless integration of embedded information processing sub-systems and physical sub-systems.
Intelligent Systems Conference 2017 (IntelliSys 2017)
Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2017 will focus on areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence (AI) and how it applies to the real world. IntelliSys is one of the best respected Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference.
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IEEE CIT 2017
The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT 2017)
held jointly with NSS 2017 and ICA3PP 2017
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