Overview: Communication networks, which convey system measurements from sensors to controllers, play a key role in cyber physical systems (CPSs) such as smart grids, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and robotic networks. In contrast to traditional communication networks such as the Internet or cellular networks, CPS communication networks aims at stabilizing or optimizing the physical dynamics, thus re-quiring new theoretical foundations and design methodologies.

Abstract: This project develops an integrated framework of communications, computation and control for understanding wide-area power system performance in the face of unpredictable disturbances. The power system is chosen as a particularly challenging cyber physical system (CPS) due to its extreme dimension, geographic reach and high reliability requirements.