Advanced Sensing and Actuation

Recommended Prerequisites

Computer Networks. Communication Protocols. Programming

Teaching Methods

The adopted teaching strategy and methods aim at engaging the student in the learning process and at his personal development and, in addition to specific technical competences, lead to the development of some generic competences of instrumental, personal and systemic nature.

Synthesis or State-of-the-Art: 30%

Lab work: 70%

    

Learning Outcomes

This course intends to provide the student a solid theoretical contextualization on cyber-physical systems and on advanced sensing and actuation. The scientific objective of this course is also to support future Human-in-the-loop Cyber-Physical Systems (HiTLCPSs) for Internet of Things, that is, independently of the processing power of the devices carried by the user or presented in the environment. This has yet to be achieved, due to the disparity in available technology between users. From the scientific and technological point of view it is not easy to support the sensing, the inference, the actuation, the privacy of HiL requirements, mainly in heterogeneous and high dynamic/mobile environments.

Since wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs), low cost and hi-tech mobile phones, laptops, actuators will be an integral part of future applications, integrating and sharing resources between such systems is of utmost importance.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

    

Module 1 - Cyber-physical systems

                History of cyber-physical systems

                Wireless and mobile networks

                Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

                Standards

                Smartphones

                Operating systems

               

Module 2 - Sensing and Actuation

                Human in the Loop

                Mobilephone sensing

                Indirect sensing

                Human behavioral computing

                Anticipatory systems

Head Lecturer(s)

Jorge Miguel Sá Silva

Assessment Methods

Continous Assessment
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 70.0%

Bibliography

Rajeev Alur, "Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems", MIT, April 10, 2015.

 

H. Karl, A. Willing, "Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks", Wiley 2005.

 

Philip Levis, David Gay, "TinyOS Programming", Cambridge University Press 2009.

 

Rick Rogers, John Lombardo, Zigurd Mednieks, Blake Meike, "Android Application Development", O’Reilly, 2009.

 

Apple Developer, "App Programming Guide for iOS", https://developer.apple.com

 

Deji Chen, Mark Nixon, Aloysius Mok, "WirelessHART: Real-Time Mesh Network for Industrial Automation", Springer 2010.

 

For each topic to be addressed in the course, a list of additional research papers will be provided to the students.