Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (NetCyPhy)

The proposed research program of Professor John S. Baras from the University of Maryland under the Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship falls under the very important and currently rapidly evolving technical area of cyber-physical systems (CPS), with emphasis on the ubiquitous Networked CPS. As described below it covers both fundamental theoretical issues within this critical area as well as applications focused in three sub areas, each in collaboration with a senior TUM Professor, as follows:

a)      Distributed collaborative control and inference methods for Networked CPS including networked control systems, heterogeneous sensor networks, human-robot collaboration, multi-agent cognitive systems, hybrid time (event-triggered and continuous time) distributed systems, smart power grids, smart connected cars, with Prof. Sandra Hirche.

b)      New Information Theory and Probability Theory models, methods, algorithms for Networked CPS including multi-agent systems, learning and cognition, directed information in multi-feedback loop systems, communication network architectures, cooperative communications, network compression (coding) and network security problems for Networked CPS with Prof. Gerhard Kramer.

c)      Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for the synthesis and life-cycle management of Networked CPS including modeling, tradeoff analysis and validation-verification methods, frameworks and environments, and reference architectures with Professor Manfred Broy.

Professor Sandra Hirche of the TUM Chair of Information-oriented Control is hosting this Focus Group.

TUM-IAS funded doctoral candidate:
Touraj Soleymani (PhD in 2019), Information-oriented Control

Publications by the Focus Group

2017

  • Soleymani, Touraj; Hirche, Sandra; Baras, John S.: Event-triggered output-feedback H<inf>∞</inf> control with minimum directed information. 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2017 more…

2016

  • Shi, Guodong; Proutiere, Alexandre; Johansson, Mikael; Baras, John S.; Johansson, Karl H.: The Evolution of Beliefs over Signed Social Networks. Operations Research 64 (3), 2016, 585-604 more…
  • Soleymani, Touraj; Hirche, Sandra; Baras, John S.: Maximization of information in energy-limited directed communication. 2016 European Control Conference (ECC), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016 more…
  • Soleymani, Touraj; Hirche, Sandra; Baras, John S.: Optimal Information Control in Cyber-Physical Systems. IFAC-PapersOnLine 49 (22), 2016, 1-6 more…
  • Soleymani, Touraj; Hirche, Sandra; Baras, John S.: Optimal stationary self-triggered sampling for estimation. 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • Soleymani, Touraj; Hirche, Sandra; Baras, John S.: Maximization of information in energy-limited directed communication. 2016 European Control Conference (ECC), IEEE, 2016 more…
  • Soleymani, Touraj; Hirche, Sandra; Baras, John S.: Optimal self-driven sampling for estimation based on value of information. 2016 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES), IEEE, 2016 more…

2015

  • D. Maity and J. S. Baras: Dynamic, optimal sensor scheduling and value of information. 18th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2015, 239-244 more…
  • Deroo, Frederik; Meinel, Martin; Ulbrich, Michael; Hirche, Sandra: Distributed Stability Tests for Large-Scale Systems With Limited Model Information. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 2 (3), 2015, 298-309 more…
  • Liu, Xiangyang; Baras, John S.: Trust-aware crowdsourcing with domain knowledge. 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2015 more…
  • Liu, Xiangyang; He, He; Baras, John S.: Trust-aware optimal crowdsourcing with budget constraint. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE, 2015 more…
  • Maity, Dipankar; Baras, John S.: Event based control for control affine nonlinear systems: A Lyapunov function based approach. 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2015 more…
  • Maity, Dipankar; Baras, John S.: Event based control of stochastic linear systems. 2015 International Conference on Event-based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP), IEEE, 2015 more…
  • Maity, Dipankar; Baras, John S.: Motion planning in dynamic environments with bounded time temporal logic specifications. 2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), IEEE, 2015 more…
  • Mamduhi, Mohammad H.; Deroo, Frederik; Hirche, Sandra: Event-based data scheduling for a class of interconnected networked control systems. 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2015 more…
  • Mamduhi, Mohammad H.; Tolic, Domagoj; Hirche, Sandra: Robust event-based data scheduling for resource constrained Networked Control Systems. 2015 American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE, 2015 more…
  • Mamduhi, Mohammad H.; Tolic, Domagoj; Hirche, Sandra: Decentralized event-based scheduling for shared-resource Networked Control Systems. 2015 European Control Conference (ECC), IEEE, 2015 more…
  • Matei, Ion; Baras, John S.: The Asymptotic Consensus Problem on Convex Metric Spaces. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 60 (4), 2015, 907-921 more…
  • Matei, Ion; Somarakis, Christoforos; Baras, John S.: A Generalized Gossip Algorithm on Convex Metric Spaces. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 60 (5), 2015, 1175-1187 more…
  • Shi, Guodong; Proutiere, Alexandre; Johansson, Mikael; Baras, John S.; Johansson, Karl Henrik: Emergent Behaviors Over Signed Random Dynamical Networks: State-Flipping Model. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 2 (2), 2015, 142-153 more…
  • X. Liu, H. He, and J. S. Baras: Crowdsourcing with multi-dimensional trust. 2015 18th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion), 2015 more…
  • Y. Zhou, D. Maity, and J. S. Baras: Optimal mission planner with timed temporal logic constraints. 14th European Control Conference, 2015, 759-764 more…
  • Yuchen Zhou; Maity, Dipankar; Baras, John S.: Optimal mission planner with timed temporal logic constraints. 2015 European Control Conference (ECC), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015 more…
  • Zhou, Yuchen; Baras, John S.: Reachable set approach to collision avoidance for UAVs. 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2015 more…