Projects

The Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CPSL) at Washington University in St. Louis performs cutting-edge research on real-time systems, wireless sensor networks, wireless health, and integrated systems that cross-cut these areas and other engineering disciplines.

Projects

• Air Quality Network - Development of Cost-effective, Compact Electrical Ultrafine Particle (eUFP) Sizers and Wireless eUFP Sensor Network
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to Detecting Falls Among the Elderly
• CyberMech, a Novel Run-Time Substrate for Cyber-Mechanical Systems
• Submodular Optimization - Generalized Submodular Optimization for Integrated Networked Sensing Systems
• Home Area Networks for Smart Energy and Home Automation - Reliable Wireless Sensor Networking in Noisy Environments
• Protocols and Analysis for Predictable Wireless Sensor Networks
• Real-Time Scheduling for Parallel Tasks
• Real-Time Wireless Control Networks - Real-Time Scheduling and Analysis for Wireless Control Networks such as WirelessHART
• Reconfigurable MAC Architecture
• RT-Xen: Real-Time Virtualization based on Hierarchical Scheduling
• Structural Health Monitoring and Control - Cyber-Physical Co-Design of Wireless Monitoring and Control for Civil Infrastructure
• Internet of Medical Things
• WCPS: Wireless Cyber-Physical Simulator
• WSN Testbed - A Wireless Sensor Network Deployed in Computer Science Buildings.

Samples of Completed Projects

Real-Time Scheduling for Parallel Tasks [NSF XPS] Safety-Feature Modeling and Adaptive Resource Management for Mixed-Criticality Cyber-Physical Systems [NSF CPS]

Cyber-Physical Co-Design of Wireless Monitoring and Control for Civil Infrastructure [NSF CPS]

Development of Cost-effective, Compact Electrical Ultrafine Particle (eUFP) Sizers and Wireless eUFP Sensor Network [EPA]

CyberMech, a Novel Run-Time Substrate for Cyber-Mechanical Systems [NSF CPS]

Generalized Submodular Optimization for Integrated Networked Sensing Systems [NSF NeTS]

Protocols and Analysis for Predictable Wireless Sensor Networks [NSF NeTS]

Energy Consumption Profiling and Occupant Behavior Learning for Efficient Energy Use in Buildings [WU I-CARES]

Reliable Home Area Networking for Energy-Efficient Buildings and Homes [WU I-CARES]

Adaptive QoS Control in Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems [NSF CAREER]

Home-Area Networks for Smart Energy and Home Automation [Broadcom, Emerson Climate Technologies]

Configurable Cyberphysical Instrument for Real-time Hybrid Testing [NSF MRI]

Wireless Sensor Networks Testbed [NSF CRI]

Unified and Configurable Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks [NSF NeTS-NOSS]

• Adaptive Resource Control for Certifiable Systems
• Adaptive QoS Control in Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems
• Agilla - A mobile agent middleware for wireless sensor networks.
• Agimone - A middleware system that combines multiple wireless sensor networks by allowing mobile agents to migrate between them.
• Configurable Cyberphysical Instrument for Real-time Hybrid Testing
• [Fluid Software Infrastructure for Wireless Sensor Networks] [NSF NeTS-NOSS]
• [Spatiotemporal Protocols and Analysis in Wireless Sensor Network] [NSF ITR]