My long-term research agenda is to develop tools and methodologies to assist in designing, validating, and implementing complex systems known as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).<\/p>\n
CPS can be found all around us, for example, in\u00a0<\/span>Avionics<\/span><\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span>Autonomous Vehicles<\/span><\/em>, but also in applications such as Building Automation Systems (BAS), Energy Management Systems (EMS), Smart Grids (SG), or Intelligent Retail.<\/span><\/p>\n CPSs are often regarded as networks of multi-physical (mechanical, electrical, biochemical, etc.) and computational (control, signal processing, logical inference, planning, etc.) processes, often interacting with a highly uncertain and adverse environment, including other CPS and human actors. CPSs are notoriously complex to design and implement, mainly because of their cross-discipline borders, leading to inter-domain interactions.<\/span><\/p>\n My current goal is to model these systems at the appropriate level of abstraction so that implementations (possibly partial) can be automatically derived. Overall, this approach can\u00a0<\/span>drastically cut the effort<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0required to\u00a0<\/span>model<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and deploy CPS.<\/span><\/p>\n At Sensei Tech<\/a> I coordinate the develoment of an incredibly sophisticated CPS<\/strong> for Autonomous Retail that combines embedded systems with AI and services integration.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Applications such as BAS, EMS, or Smart Grids (SG), can be understood in real-time data flows from\u00a0<\/span>sensors<\/span><\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span>actuators<\/span><\/em>. Technically, these data flows can be expressed as Real-Time Data Streaming Queries that can be efficiently processed using engines known as Data Stream Management Systems (DSMS). I have been particularly interested in expressing complex CPS logic using these systems. Expectably, from an engineering point of view, systems conceived utilising this approach will be much easier to\u00a0<\/span>understand<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>maintain<\/span><\/strong>, and\u00a0<\/span>evolve<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n My\u00a0<\/span><\/em>hypothesis<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is that a useful sub-class of CPSs can be successfully addressed as a Sensor Data Processing (SDP).<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Several research questions are not yet answered regarding the use of DSMS to implement CPS, among which:<\/span><\/p>\n Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is an advanced Software Engineering technique that simplifies the design of complex systems by capturing high-level domain models. MDE works from the idea of describing domains in a language that closes the semantic gap (i.e. minimises the cognitive gap) between the problem and the solution as much as possible. Models can then be analysed and simulated to validate desired properties and then be subjected to automatic synthesis.<\/p>\n I believe that\u00a0<\/span>MDE can be successfully employed<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span>model<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>verify<\/span><\/strong>, and\u00a0<\/span>automatically<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>synthesise<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0control logic for the subclass of CPS that corresponds to SDP problems. Moreover, I believe that\u00a0<\/span>multi-paradigm modelling<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0can be used in the process.<\/span> For this to be possible, the following questions, among others, need an answer:<\/p>\n Building Information Modelling is a surprisingly rich and effervescent field in problems and solutions regarding complex models. A BIM is a super meta-model that enables the formalisation of multiple aspects of a building. A recent extension proposal to BIM aims at capturing BA aspects as well. BIM is also exciting due to the availability of tools.<\/p>\n I aim to\u00a0<\/span>verify<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>simulate<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0the behaviour of a building (including its BA system)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0entirely from a BIM specification<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span> The idea is to extract a Physics Model<\/strong> and a Control System model<\/strong> from the BIM model. The impact of this research is far-reaching: it would enable tunning the BA system to maximise energy efficiency and occupant comfort.<\/p>\n In this effort several questions have to be answered:<\/span><\/p>\n Another field of study that I am passionate about is Database Systems. I have created efficient tools for handling complex data transformations and then studied how the engines of RDBMS could be extended to support these transformations. This work front has required significant knowledge in<\/span>:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n My long-term research agenda is to develop tools and methodologies to assist in designing, validating, and implementing complex systems known as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). RESEARCH IN CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS MODELING CPS can be found all around us, for example, in\u00a0Avionics\u00a0or\u00a0Autonomous Vehicles, but also in applications such as Building Automation Systems (BAS), Energy Management Systems (EMS), Smart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nSENSOR DATA PROCESSING<\/h3>\n
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