International Workshop on Energy efficient Cyber Physical Systems (EnerCyPhy) in conjunction with PECCS 2017 July 24 – 26, 2017 | Madrid, Spain Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

U.S. Department of Transportation and ITS America Offer Free Webinar on ATTRI Project Title: USDOT ATTRI Update, Webinar 2 Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET Presenters: USDOT, TRX Systems, and City College of New York Registration: Click Here  

Data Governance & Exchange SuperCluster (DGSC) will host a webinar on December 14, 2017 (Thursday) at 12-1pm US Eastern Time The importance of data governance is becoming more obvious as communities and private sector entities increase collaboration based on data exchange. The DGSC will host its first webinar on December 14th at 12:00 p.m. ET. Will cover overview, objectives, process, and examples of relevant activities to DGSC, and key outputs of GCTC SuperClusters Presenters will likely include (tentative list):

Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability, with 80% of survivors having locomotor impairments. Individuals after stroke typically present with hemiparetic gait, characterized as slow, asymmetric, and inefficient. Our lab has been developing soft wearable cyber-physical sytems, called soft exosuits, that interface with paretic limb after stroke through soft and conformal textile-based structures to assist hemiparetic walking. Soft exosuits transmit mechanical power to human body joints via interaction between functional textiles worn on the body and Bowden cable retraction.

Our overall aim in this project is to synthesize desired behaviors in populations of bacterial and mammalian cells. To this goal, we define the basis of a next-generation cyber-physical system (CPS) called biological CPS (bioCPS). The enabling technologies are synthetic biology and micron-scale mobile robotics. Synthetic genetic circuits for decision making and local communication among the cells are automatically synthesized using a Bio-Design Automation (BDA) workflow.

This research assesses the threat of cyber-physical attacks to manufacturing systems that change the design of a physical part, elude quality control measures, and result in part failure. This goal is achieved through the development of: a cyber-physical attack taxonomy, framework to assess levels of cyber-physical vulnerability, models to detect and diagnose the presence of attacks in real-time, and side-channel detection techniques specific to manufacturing.

This project will design and implement a domain-specific language and compiler for microfluidic laboratory-on-a-chip (LoC) devices based on electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWoD) technology. The Lead PI’s team has designed and implemented BioScript, a domain-specific programming language for programmable microfluidics. The BioScript syntax is programmer friendly, with the intention of being accessible to biologists and other researchers and practitioners in the life sciences.

The goal of this project is to create an integrative framework for the design of coupled biological and robotic systems that accommodates system uncertainties and competing objectives in a rigorous, holistic, and e­ffective manner. The design principles are developed using a concrete, end-to-end application of tracking and modeling fish movement with a network of gliding robotic fish. The proposed robotic platform is an energy-efficient underwater gliding robotic fish that travels by changing its buoyancy and mass distribution (gliding) or by flapping tail fin (swimming).