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Closing the loop with Networked Cyber-Physical Systems - CANCELLED

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  • UserProfessor Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A
  • ClockMonday 11 June 2012, 11:00-12:00
  • HouseGabor Seminar Room, 611.

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This talk has had to be postponed. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. ——————————————————————————— Cyber-Physical Systems are the next generation of embedded systems with the tight integration of computing, communication and control of “messy” plants. I will describe our recent efforts in modeling for scheduling and control of closed-loop Cyber-Physical Systems across the domains of medical devices, energy-efficient buildings and programmable automotive systems.

In-vehicle Controls, Vehicle-to-Vehicle Networking and Scalable Real-Time Traffic Management The automobile of the future will be programmable for network-based active safety, real-time traffic congestion prediction and remote vehicle diagnostics and updates. To realize this goal, we present three contributions toward the foundations of Automotive-CPS: (a) AutoPlug – An Open Automotive Platform for Electronic Controller Unit (ECU) testing, and verification for remote recalls management; (b) GrooveNet – a vehicle-to-vehicle network virtualization platform that enables communication between hundreds of virtual vehicles and real vehicles for active networked safety, and© AutoMatrix – a GPU -based vehicular traffic congestion simulator that can simulate over 16 million vehicles for real-time traffic congestion probing, prediction and fastest-path route assignment. Given these building blocks, we believe that Automotive-CPS wireless networks will make driving safer, more efficient and of course, more enjoyable.

Closed-loop Distributed Wireless Control/Actuator Networks Embedded wireless networks have largely focused on open loop sensing and monitoring. To address actuation in closed-loop wireless control systems there is a strong need to re-think the communication architectures and protocols for reliability, coordination and control. To this end, we introduce two new approaches for robust wireless control/actuation: (a) Embedded Virtual Machines where controller tasks migrate across physical nodes at runtime to maintain stability and performance and (b) Wireless Control Network, a distributed in-network approach where the network acts as a wireless controller cloud. We demonstrate optimal and robust distributed control of a process-in-loop experiment over a network of TI-MSP430 devices. More details here.

As time permits, I will briefly describe our recent investigations across energy-efficient building control/scheduling, programmable automotive systems and real-time computing on GPUs.

Bio: Rahul Mangharam is the Stephen J Angello Chair and Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electrical & Systems Engineering and Dept. of Computer & Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He directs the Real-Time and Embedded Systems Lab at Penn. His interests are in real-time scheduling algorithms for networked embedded systems with applications in automotive systems, medical devices and industrial control networks. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where he also received his MS and BS in 2007, 2002 and 2000 respectively. In 2002, he was a member of technical staff in the Ultra-Wide Band Wireless Group at Intel Labs. He was an international scholar in the Wireless Systems Group at IMEC , Belgium in 2003. He has worked on ASIC chip design at Marconi Communications (1999) and Gigabit Ethernet at Apple Computer Inc. (2000).

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