From left to right: Xiao Wang (Statistics), Dengfeng Sun (AAE), Shreyas Sundaram (ECE), Saurabh Bagchi (CRISP Director and ECE faculty), Shirley Dyke (CE/ME), Shaoshuai Mou (AAE) (not pictured, Ilias Bilionis, ME)

Two AAE professors were part of three seed grant awards in the first year of a College of Engineering center’s seed grant competition.

Shaoshuai Mou, an AAE assistant professor, and Prof. Dengfeng Sun, an associate professor in AAE, teamed with professors from ECE and Statistics to earn the grants. Researchers with the Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes (CRISP) develop solutions to questions such as: “What causes some systems – computing, cyber physical, or large-scale engineered systems -- to be resilient to disruptions of various kinds, and what causes some systems to ‘bounce back’ from a failure quickly?”

The projects chosen for seed funding will address different aspects of these broad questions.

Mou and ECE’s Shreyas Sundaram teamed for a proposal titled “Resilient Distributed Information Fusion in Hostile and Dynamic Environments" with a domain area in cyber physical systems. The proposed research aims to establish the foundations for a fundamentally new method for swarms of autonomous agents to perform distributed fusion of observations in hostile and dynamic environments. 

Sun’s and Xiao Wang’s proposal, "Resilient Operations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems” in the domain area of cyber physical systems, will bring together expertise on aerospace engineering and statistical science to design a system-theoretic framework for modeling, analysis, and resilient control strategies for unmanned aerial vehicle systems (UASs).

Source: New engineering center makes three seed grant awards