CSR---CPS: Bio-Inspired Cyber Physical Systems

这个项目寻求解决在理解集体行为方面的根本差距，并开发一种用于网络物理系统的软件设计方法，该系统使用感知、通信和驱动来完成远远超出单个单位能力的任务。具体地说，重点是使网络物理系统能够适应不断变化的环境条件并对干扰和攻击具有弹性的方法，以及通过本质上解决网络物理系统的逆问题将群体的设计规范转换为单个单元的软件设计规范的工具。这项研究代表了分子、细胞和种群生物学、系统建模、控制理论和机器人学的交叉授粉研究。它带来了新的建模方法和系统生物学的最新成果，与设计和构建网络物理系统的问题有关。具体地说，它将建立一个框架，用于设计和实现跨多个时间尺度的实时、聚合的网络系统的算法，并帮助开发用于可重构、自适应和弹性系统的高置信度软件的基础。该项目预计将通过研究研讨会为包括生物学家、控制理论家和机器人专家在内的新的研究人员社区奠定基础。

This project seeks to address fundamental gaps in the understanding of collective behavior, and to develop a methodology for software design for cyber physical systems that use sensing, communication, and actuation to accomplish tasks that are well beyond the capabilities of individual units. Specifically, the focus is on methodologies that will allow cyber physical systems to adapt to changing environmental conditions and be resilient to disturbances and attacks, and tools to translate design specifications for the group to software design specifications for individual units by essentially solving the inverse problem for networked cyber physical systems.This research represents the cross pollination of research in molecular, cell and population biology, systems modeling, control theory and robotics. It brings novel modeling approaches and recent results in systems biology to bear on the problem of designing and architecting cyber physical systems. Specifically, it will establish a framework for designing and realizing algorithms for real-time, aggregated networked systems across multiple time-scales, and help develop the foundation for high-confidence software for reconfigurable, adaptive and resilient systems.The project is expected to lay the foundation for a new community of researchers that include biologists, control theorists and roboticists through research workshops.