Abstract: Despite their importance within the energy sector, buildings have not kept pace with technological improvements and particularly  the evolution of intelligent features. A primary obstacle  in enabling intelligent buildings is their highly distributed and diverse nature.

Abstract: When mechanical linkages are replaced by electronic communication and control systems, certain undesirable phenomena can arise that may be difficult to anticipate. In simple cases the lack of dissipativity in the cyber link unmasks instabilities that were present but suppressed in the system with a mechanical (physical) link. In more complex cases, there may be no simple physical equivalent to the system containing the cyber link, and a damping coefficient or dissipative element may not be identifiable.

Abstract: Transforming the traditional, single-vehicle-based safety and efficiency control, next-generation vehicles are expected to form platoons for optimizing roadway usage and fuel efficiency while ensuring transportation safety. Two basic enablers of vehicle platooning are vehicular wireless networking and platoon control.

Abstract: Control networks are wireless substrates for industrial automation control, such as the WirelessHART and ISA100.11.a, and have fundamental differences over their sensor network counterparts as they also include actuation and the physical dynamics. Consequently, these system are fundamentally constrained by the tight coupling, and closed-loop control and actuation of physical processes.

Abstract: The purpose of this grant was to develop clothing-like material with embedded sensors and synthetic muscles. When eventually worn by brain-injured individuals over one or more limbs, this clothing may be used to restore their capability for independent mobility. The material, called a “second skin”, is a cyberphysical system designed as a soft robot that cooperates with the biological muscles of the body.

Abstract: Although coastal waters play a crucial part in the ecosystem and economy, detailed monitoring of these areas has been difficult. This multi-institutional project presents a novel technology, where a large number of autonomous underwater vehicles organize themselves as a swarm, forming a dense four-dimensional spatio-temporal sampling system.

Abstract: The project aims to establish a Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for urban environments and address fundamental problems that involve data collection, resource allocation, real-time decision making, safety, and security.

Abstract: We are developing advanced distributed monitoring and control systems for civil infrastructure. The approach employs cyber-physical co-design of wireless sensor-actuator networks and structural monitoring and control algorithms. The unified cyber-physical system architecture provides reusable middleware services for developing hierarchical structural monitoring and control systems.

Abstract: The relentless competition among automotive companies and increasing demands from customers for driver assistance functions and dynamically-controlled safety systems in vehicles are creating mounting time-to-market pressures and, consequently, shortened development times. With the increased vehicle complexity and shortened development times, guaranteeing hardware-software integrity and, hence, vehicle performance has become a salient issue.

Abstract: This research proposal focuses on event-­‐based information acquisition, state estimation and control in the context of high dimensional cyber physical systems. In particular, as part of the cyber system a (set of) decision maker(s) or agents is responsible for the acquisition of information, learning, and control about the underlying physical system of interest. The information acquisition process may be instigated or adapted based on events in the systems.