NATIONAL WORKSHOP for RESEARCH on HIGH-CONFIDENCE TRANSPORTATION CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS: AUTOMOTIVE, AVIATION & RAIL |
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November 18-20, 2008 |
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Washington, DC |
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Call for Position Papers | ||||||||||||||||||
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CFP in PDFhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhCFOCFP in ASCII format Workshop Purpose, Objectives, and Focus Areas A CPS integrates control, computing, communication, and storage capabilities with physical and engineered entities that possess physical-world dynamics, in order to sense, monitor, and control them. It must do so dependably, safely, securely, efficiently, and in real-time. It may require certification of safety and security. Engineering co-design of the cyber and physical components is central to CPS. The workshop objectives are: to define a coherent and compelling vision that supports both the shared and separate needs of the sectors, to highlight the technical and scientific challenges, and to identify promising approaches. Although the focus of this workshop is on transportation, representatives of other CPS-intensive sectors, such as medical devices and systems, energy systems, other infrastructures, and environmental systems, are welcome to participate. The workshop format will be discussion-oriented with specific goals to:
Our aim is to invite all relevant stakeholders, including researchers, developers, and users, who can help to identify emerging systems and assurance needs. Transportation CPS must be dependable, secure, safe, and efficient and operate in real-time. They must also be scalable, cost-effective, and adaptive. They must seamlessly integrate operations in the cyber-computing and communications domain with actions and events in the physical world. This workshop will focus on promising solutions (methodologies, techniques and approaches) to satisfy these requirements, with primary emphases on innovations in observation and manipulation of the physical world, novel integration of sensors and actuators with computing and communications hardware capabilities, security, a scalable and reliable software infrastructure tailored to the needs of CPS, application domain-specific advances in control/hybrid systems and signal processing that enable end-to-end operation, and the design and development of high-impact applications. In particular, abstractions and techniques that span multiple layers (including the physical world) are of special interest. A reference architecture that can support a range of CPS is also of interest. A secondary objective is to propose core elements of a new lexicon to capture the new thinking underlying the novel scope and cross-cutting disciplinary nature of CPS to drive future innovation. In summary, topics of interest include:
Background Similarly, the aviation sector is challenged by the need for a Next Generation airspace, in which many classes of air vehicles can interoperate safely with increased autonomy, and new airspace capacity and operational models can enable decentralized airspace management. These innovations will require dependable software for the aircraft avionics as well as the airspace management system. If the physical limitations of the behavior of the aircraft are known, they can inform the software development as well as the required distance separation between aircraft. Communication between aircraft will be paramount in a decentralized system, and emphasizes the dependencies on networked systems as well as their security. Both freight and passenger rail systems are seeing increased demands for service because of their inherent fuel efficiency and safety. Because it is not probable that significant new track lines will be laid in the foreseeable future, the current infrastructure will see an increased density of usage. This increase poses significant challenges to the logistics of operation and to the safety, durability and integrity of the system. The most effective means of dealing with these issues is to create a multi-domain CPS that integrates dispatch centers, maintenance operations, track, signals, individual cars and trains as a unified dynamic system that operates optimally according to real-time conditions. Such a system is essential if passenger, commuter and freight rail systems are to continue to operate at increasing densities on overlapping infrastructures. Trains should be capable of communicating track condition to centralized control centers that could then determine optimal speeds for trains in the system to avoid bottlenecks at sidings on single track lines, locomotive power and braking should synchronize with individual car braking to optimize train dynamics and reduce power consumption and wear on track and wheels. Careful monitoring of the train-track dynamics together with real-time simulation of system performance can provide the guidance needed to achieve zero reactive maintenance, stable train dynamics and reduced damage during derailments. The synergies between the automotive, aviation, and rail CPS have led to this transportation workshop to continue the momentum produced by prior automotive (see http://varma.ece.cmu.edu/auto-cps) and aviation (see http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/hcssas) meetings, and to provide a forum to exchange new research and development results by the emerging community of researchers, developers, regulators, users, and manufacturers. Position Paper Instructions
In addition, each position paper should include at most a half-page bio, organization/affiliation, email address, and phone number for each author. The bios are included in the 3-page limit. Submissions are accepted in the PDF format using the submission page, by OCTOBER 26, 2008. Please use corresponding author's last name as the filename for the uploaded file. Please note that submitted position papers will be available on-line, and authors are advised not to include any proprietary information that they do not wish to be publicly disseminated. Attendance and Participation Deliverable Important Dates |
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