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<div class="">International PhD Course on Wireless Sensors and Actuator Networks </div>
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<div class="">European Embedded Control Institute<br class="">
University of LâAquila, Italy</div>
<div class="">April 18-21, 2017</div>
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<div class="">Advance registration before December 28, 2016:</div>
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<div class="">Grants for PhD students:</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://www.eeci-igsc.eu/grant-igsc-2017/" class="">http://www.eeci-igsc.eu/grant-igsc-2017/</a></div>
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Abstract:
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The massive deployment of smart and wirelessly interconnected devices in cyber-physical systems such as smart grids, networks, and intelligent transport systems, is providing extensive information from the physical world through distributed sensing mechanisms.
With the emergence of low-cost controllers/actuators that can be potentially embedded in everything (e.g., vehicles, robots, buildings, human body), sensed information can be utilized for control, estimation and monitoring at an unprecedented scale. This is
demanding the development of fundamental design principles for Wireless Sensor and Actuators Networks (WSANs) so to reliably and certifiably observe the physical world, analyzing data, making decisions and performing appropriate control actions. In addition,
due to the vulnerability of wireless networks to cyber-physical malicious attacks, security is a primary concern for WSANs.
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This course is devoted to the study of WSANs: we present a co-design approach of Control Systems and Networks supporting control applications over WSAN. In particular, we will discuss the following scenarios:<br class="">
Control-aware network design, when the network parameters can be adapted by an optimization problem whose objective is a network utility, and the constraints are the reliability and latency of the messages as requested by a control application;<br class="">
Network-aware controller design, when the controller can be adapted to guarantee some control specifications robustly with respect to networking non-idealities and malicious attacks;<br class="">
Cross-layer optimization, where desirable signaling between network layers enable simultaneous computation of control actions and networking configuration to improve the overall system performance;<br class="">
Distributed optimization, where the nodes of WSANs cooperate to solve network global optimization problems that may possibly include privacy constraints. <br class="">
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<div class="">Topics: </div>
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<div class="">â¢Mathematical modeling of networks for WSANs</div>
<div class="">â¢Mathematical modeling of closed-loop systems over WSANs</div>
<div class="">â¢Robust, resilient and secure control co-design over WSANs</div>
<div class="">â¢Distributed optimization over WSANs</div>
<div class="">â¢Discussion of open problems and opportunities for research</div>
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<div class="">Advance registration before 28 December, 2016:</div>
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<div class="">Grants for PhD students:</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://www.eeci-igsc.eu/grant-igsc-2017/" class="">http://www.eeci-igsc.eu/grant-igsc-2017/</a></div>
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