This $427,891 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award will support the development of a novel architecture called RESONET (Resilient and Secure Operation of Networked Real-Time Systems). The project aims to establish foundational principles that enable multiple real-time systems, such as autonomous vehicles and industrial automation, to carry out coordinated operations securely and with timeliness guarantees, even in...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $597,585 will fund research into co-designed control and scheduling adaptation for cyber-physical system safety and performance from April 2023 through March 2026. The award is provided through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, a team led by...
This $1,722,089 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop rigorous, scientific mechanisms to enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS) against various perturbations. The award to Purdue University, effective June 15, 2024 through May 31, 2029, will focus on modeling and understanding the impacts of unintended errors, security attacks, unexpected interactions, and...
This $400,601 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop rigorous scientific mechanisms that enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a focus on connected and autonomous transportation systems (CATS). The key research thrusts include: 1) Modeling cyber, physical, and human assets and their interconnections, as well as economic and policy constraints, to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) will advance fundamental knowledge in intelligent and sustainable air-ground collaborative systems. The $150,000 award to Wright State University will fund research to integrate adaptive data compression, cooperative perception, and strategic planning capabilities into autonomous aerial and ground vehicle systems. The project aims to...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $592,000 to Purdue University to support collaborative research on co-designed control and scheduling adaptation for cyber-physical system safety and performance from April 2023 through March 2026. The award aims to develop new models, analyses, infrastructure and metrics to represent and account for interdependencies between control and scheduling in...
This $199,369 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to enable autonomous systems to dynamically detect, classify, and mitigate unexpected disruptions in real-time. The research aims to develop a unified framework using game-theoretic modeling and reinforcement learning control strategies, which could enhance the resilience, efficiency, and safety of autonomous systems in critical applications like intelligent...
This $493,514 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to develop rigorous, scientific mechanisms that enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS) against various types of perturbations. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: FRONTIER: CHORUS: RESILIENT DISTRIBUTED CPS THROUGH RATIONAL AND DYNAMIC DECISION-MAKING AMONG MULTIPLE...
This $318,500 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research to develop an accelerated computation architecture for system modeling techniques and apply them to critical smart environment applications. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) design efficient computation techniques to accelerate reachability computation in state transition representations,...
This $875,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development of "Performance Verification", an automated reasoning framework to evaluate the reliability and availability of complex networked systems. The project aims to create formal modeling and specification methods to represent the behavior of modern networked systems, along with automated techniques to generate...
This $599,943 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop techniques for more efficient and resilient real-time communications in critical cyber-physical systems like aircraft, automobiles, and industrial control networks. The key innovations include creating holistic models, algorithms, and software designs to achieve the scalability, adaptability, and resiliency required for real-time applications. Specifically, the project will explore design methodologies that combine real-time scheduling theory with emerging networking paradigms like software-defined networks and programmable switches. The research will devise novel routing, flow scheduling, and fault tolerance techniques to provide better end-to-end quality-of-service and resilience, thus enhancing overall resource utilization for these safety-critical systems. The award, effective August 1, 2024, supports this foundational research over a 3-year period at Washington State University, a public land-grant research institution.