Christos Cassandras
Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: An Online Learning Framework for Socially Emerging Mixed Mobility
Emerging mobility systems, e.g., connected and automated vehicles and shared mobility, provide the most intriguing opportunity for enabling users to better monitor transportation network conditions and make better decisions for improving safety and transportation efficiency. However, different levels of vehicle automation in the transportation network can significantly alter transportation efficiency metrics (travel times, energy, environmental […]
A New Risk Assessment and Management Paradigm (NewRAMP) in Electricity Markets
The grid relies on conventional bulk power plants to provide the flexibility to operate power systems reliably. These assets can guarantee available capacity except in rare events. The existing risk management strategy protects against those rare events and aligns well with conventional technologies. New risk management strategies are needed due to the shift in grid […]
Decentralized Optimal Control of Cooperating Networked Multi-agent Systems
Multi-agent systems encompass a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from connected autonomous vehicles and the emerging internet of cars, where the spatial domain may be hundreds of miles with time horizons over hours of days, to micro-air vehicles which operate over meter length and minute time scales, and down to nano-manipulation with nanometer spatial microsecond […]
Decentralized optimal control of cooperating networked multi-agent systems
Multi-agent systems encompass a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from connected autonomous vehicles and the emerging internet of cars, where the spatial domain may be hundreds of miles with time horizons over hours of days, to micro-air vehicles which operate over meter length and minute time scales, and down to nano-manipulation with nanometer spatial microsecond […]
QuBBD: From Personalized Predictions to Better Control of Chronic Health Conditions
The United States spends twice as much annually on health care than the next-highest spender but significantly under-performs in quality of care metrics, such as life expectancy and infant mortality. Hospital care accounts for about a third of U.S. health care spending. It has been estimated that nearly $30 billion in hospital care costs each […]
CPS: Breakthrough: A Dynamic Optimization Framework for Connected Automated Vehicles in Urban Environments
Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs), often referred to as “self-driving cars”, will have a profound impact not only on transportation systems, but also in terms of associated economic, environmental, and social effects. As with any such major transformative undertaking, quantifying the magnitude of its expected impact is essential. The first part of this project aims at […]
Workshop on Smart Cities, Arlington, Virginia, December 3-4, 2015
This Workshop will bring together researchers and technical leaders from academia, industry, and municipal government in order to set a short and long-term research agenda for Smart Cities aiming to integrate the three broad fields of Engineering, Computer Science, and Social Science. The Workshop topics cover a variety of fields and specialized disciplines including: transportation, […]
Detection and Tracking of Multiple Dynamic Targets with Cooperating Networked Agents
In the multi-agent framework, a team of autonomous agents cooperates in carrying out complex tasks in an environment that is potentially dynamic, hazardous, and even adversarial. In general, the team must seek out and then monitor targets that may also be moving while balancing the monitoring task with continued exploration. This setting, broadly termed persistent […]
PFI:BIC A Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem (SCOPE)
This NSF Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) project from Boston University will research, prototype, and evaluate novel “smart-city” services for the city of Boston and for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The centerpiece of the project is a Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem (SCOPE), which creates a multisided marketplace for smart-city services based […]
CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for the “Smart City”
The project aims at making cities “smarter” by engineering processes such as traffic control, efficient parking services, and new urban activities such as recharging electric vehicles. To that end, the research will study the components needed to establish a Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for urban environments and address fundamental problems that involve data collection, resource allocation, real-time […]