1. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory TWL Direction Almir Davis 09/28/20091

2. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory AGENDA TWL Organization TWL Present (Wireless Sensor Networks) TWL Future Direction (Cyber Physical Systems) CAS Paper: Edward Lee “Cyber Physical Systems: Design Challenges” 09/28/20092

3. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory TWL Organization Established 2 years ago Have defined management structure Meeting room and website are available Meetings on a regular weekly basis Membership: varies from year to year (currently ~5 regular members) 09/28/20093

4. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory TWL Organization – To Do List Define the new technical area focus (CAS) Push senior/PH.D. members of the lab to define their project directions so that junior members can help out by digging deep into some aspects of those projects Maintain the website and make sure all the intern presentations use TWL PowerP. template Extend the alliance with Microsoft 09/28/20094

5. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory TWL Organization – To Do List Continue attracting new members once the attractive projects are defined and put in motion keep regular meeting schedule, meeting notes Keep an active spreadsheet (make it available online) of all papers read (date, name, key conclusions) Have some pizza available for meetings 09/28/20095

6. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory TWL Present Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) –Read number of papers/publications –Possess knowledge in key WSN issues –Capable to develop real Tufts WSN platforms using TI WSN sensor kit –Have current students doing there graduate work in WSN 09/28/20096

7. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory TWL Future (part 1) Cyber Physical Systems –Gain knowledge and expertise by reading papers/publications (as many as possible) –Share the knowledge among group members by presenting at least 1 paper per week (full time students maybe 2) –Find a focus in the area that is large enough to allow multi-student involvement 09/28/20097

8. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory TWL Future (part 2) Cyber Physical Systems –Once the projects are established ask individuals to hand in a detailed task schedule with major trackable milestone –Prof. Chang to approve the schedules and track the progress accordingly 09/28/20098

9. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory E. Lee: “Cyber Physical Systems: Design Challenges”(1) Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrations of computation and physical processes The economic and social potential of CPS systems is vastly greater than what has been realized, and major investments are being made worldwide to develop the technology There are considerable challenges, particularly because the physical components of such systems introduce safety and reliability requirements qualitatively different from those in general purpose computing. 09/28/20099

10. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory Potential Fields high confidence medical devices and systems, assisted living, Traffic control and safety, advanced automotive systems, Process control, energy conservation, environmental control, avionics, instrumentation, critical infrastructure control distributed robotics (telepresence, telemedicine), defense systems, manufacturing, smart structures. 09/28/2009 10

11. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory Requirements Reliability Predictability Timing certainty Concurrency System understanding 09/28/200911

12. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory Background Comparison with embedded system –inadequate due to CAS’s much larger scope –System flat bench scaled toward smaller systems Aging (“ Evidently, efficiency is nearly irrelevant compared to predictability, and predictability is difficult to achieve without freezing the design at the physical level”) 09/28/2009 12

13. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory Background (1) Time synchronization across networks –( “The most widely used networking techniques today introduce a great deal of timing variability and stochastic behavior.”) Concurrency of embedded systems –(“ embedded systems must react to multiple real-time streams of sensor information and control multiple actuators concurrently ”) 09/28/2009 13

14. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory Background (2) Time synchronization across networks –(“The most widely used networking techniques today introduce a great deal of timing variability and stochastic behavior.”) Concurrency of embedded systems –(“embedded systems must react to multiple real-time streams of sensor information and control multiple actuators concurrently”) 09/28/2009 14

15. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory Solutions (1) New computing concepts needed –(“Advances in formal simulation, emulation and verification will help but won’t be enough”) Predictable models –(“Instead of starting with a highly nondeterministic mechanism like threads, and relying on the programmer to prune that nondeterminacy, we should start with deterministic, composable mechanisms, and introduce nondeterminism only where needed”) Timing precision –(“possible if we are willing to sacrifice performance”) 09/28/2009 15

16. Tufts University School Of Engineering Tufts Wireless Laboratory Solutions (2) Reflect behavioral properties in interfaces –(“ability to develop and compose specialized “interface theories”) Coordination Language –(“introduce new semantics at the component interaction level rather than at the programming language level”) 09/28/2009 16