Description:
The Embedded Systems Division will lead the new trends of real-time cyber-physical systems. Research topics include cyber-security, prevention and detection of cyberattacks, sensing/communication under uncertainty, software/hardware on-the-loop integration, implementation of real-time algorithms for complex dynamic systems, artificial intelligence for unmanned vehicles under uncertain conditions, machine learning and decision for hardware management, algorithms for cooperation and governing interactions in large-scale hardware complex systems, remote sensing, nondestructive evaluation, cyber-human interaction, novel computationally-efficient control and planning algorithms for guarantee performance on aerospace and unmanned systems.
Main Goals:
- Design and analyze embedded system architectures composed of advanced circuitry that can meet aerospace systems requirements such as the ability to sustain extreme operating conditions like extreme temperature, pressure, and high shock or vibration scenarios.
- Design and analyze embedded software customized for aerospace problems. These include real-time software managing complex hardware design that may range from high speed, 32-bit, multiprocessor systems, to basic 8-bit microcontrollers, to power and analog circuits depending on the application.
- Research the use of embedded systems in emerging aerospace applications and solutions such as Unmanned Systems.
- Research on advances in real-time operating systems (RTOS) and its use in embedded systems for aerospace.
- Research on cybersecurity and protection of embedded systems.
- Research on the use of real-time embedded systems to provide secure communications and wireless communication in aerospace systems.
Areas of interest:
- Embedded design for Unmanned Systems
- RTOS and virtualization
- Cybersecurity in embedded systems