Project Grant 2301757

This $440,014 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research at Wayne State University to develop theoretical foundations and systems for enabling industrial automation using low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs). Specifically, the university will conduct research to address challenges in adopting LPWAN technologies like LoRa for industrial process control and smart manufacturing applications requiring communication over wide areas. This includes developing an autonomous real-time scheduling technique using demand bound function theory, a scalable scheduling-control co-design method, and a highly energy-efficient co-design approach utilizing self-triggered and event-triggered control with state-aware communication. The university will evaluate results through experiments on an industrial process control testbed. The award period is from October 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023.