Abstract: The project is an on‐going collaborative effort between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania since 2011.

Abstract: The present day technology falls short in offering centimeter scale mobile robots that can function effectively under unknown and dynamic environmental conditions. Insects, on the other hand, exhibit an unmatched ability to navigate through a wide variety of environments and overcome perturbations by successfully maintaining control and stability.

Abstract: This cross-disciplinary project brings together a team of engineering and computer science researchers to create, validate, and demonstrate the value of new techniques for ensuring that systems composed of combinations of hardware, software, and people are designed to operate in a truly synergistic and safe fashion.

Abstract: Ongoing breakthroughs in nationally important research areas like Verification and Artificial Intelligence depend on continuing advances in high-performance automated theorem proving tools. The typical use of these tools is as backends: application problems are translated by an application tool into (typically very large and complex) logic formulas, which are then handed off to a logic solver. Different tradeoffs between linguistic expressiveness and the difficulty of solving the resulting problems give rise to different logics.

Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are being increasingly deployed in critical infrastructures such as electric- power, water, transportation, and other networks. These deployments are facilitating real-time monitoring and control by exploiting the advances in wireless sensor-actuator networks, the internet of “everything”, data-driven analytics, and machine-to-machine interfaces. CPS operations depend on the synergy of com- putational and physical components. In addition, in many cases, CPS also interact with human decision makers.

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Abstract: Motivation: Power transmission networks underpin our way of life and are at the center of the transformation of the US energy system. “Keeping the lights on” as we transform an already large and complicated power system is a fundamental challenge for cyber- physical engineering. Future power networks will be instrumented with synchrophasor measurement units, communication infrastructures and distributed computing, and are therefore prototypical examples of cyber-physical systems with tightly coupled compu- tational and physical resources.