Rahul Mangharam  

Real-Time & Embedded Systems Laboratory

Electrical & Systems Engineering

"Closing the loop with Cyber-Physical Modeling"

 

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Systems are the next generation of real-time embedded systems with tight integration of computing, communication and control of “messy” plants such as the human body. In this talk, I will present an overview of the exciting research in the Real-Time & Embedded Systems Laboratory. Over the past few years, we have focused on the development of Cyber-Physical Systems across time-critical and safety-critical domains spanning: (a) implantable medical device systems and software, (b) programmable automotive systems, (c) new approaches to wireless control for the factory of the future, (d) new algorithms for peak power minimization in energy-efficient buildings and (e) real-time parallel computing on graphics processors.  As there are several topics, I will give an entertaining video overview of each.

 

I will begin with discussing the challenge of designing bug-free medical device software, especially for devices such as pacemakers that are implanted and may be used in unanticipated contexts. Safety recalls of pacemakers between 1990 and 2000 affected over 600,000 devices, of which 200,000 were due to software issues. At Penn, we have created a model of the heart to interact with medical devices for closed-loop testing and verification of the device software. We will follow this with challenge problems in energy scheduling and control for buildings. If time remains, I will show videos of cool embedded systems course projects that have gone on to win the World Embedded Programming Competition 2010 in Korea, the Honeywell Wireless Design Competition 2011 and the Google Zeitgeist Young Minds 2011 Competition.

 

More details at http://mlab.seas.upenn.edu

 

 

Refreshments will be served on the

2nd Floor Mezzazine Level

immediately following the talk.

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