FORCES 2013 NSF Review Meeting

The FORCES 2013 NSF Review Meeting was held October 29, 2013 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA.

FORCES Meeting Agenda

Below is the meeting agenda. A PDF version of the program is available here.

FORCES Theoretical Foundations

08:15 - 08:30    Welcome and Introductions
Shankar Sastry (Berkeley)
08:30 - 08:45    Robust Control for Safety and Security
Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)
08:45 - 09:00    Dynamic Contracts with Partial Observations, with Application to Indirect Load Control in Power Systems
Claire Tomlin (Berkeley)
09:00 - 09:30    Games of Strategy for Modeling Conflict and Cooperation
Galina Schwartz (Berkeley) and Demos Teneketzis (Michigan)
09:30 - 10:00    Mechanism Design for Incentive Regulation
Demos Teneketzis (Michigan), Saurabh Amin (MIT)

FORCES Design Tools

10:00 - 10:30    Towards Resilience in CPS Software Platforms
Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt)
10:30 - 10:45    Resilient Cooperative Control in Tree Topology Networks
Xenofon Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt)
10:45 - 11:00    Fault and Attack Tolerant Control - Power Systems
Ian Hiskens (Michigan)
11:00 - 11:30    System Security Co-Design
Saurabh Amin (MIT, Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt)

FORCES Young Researchers Talks

11:30 - 12:15    New Student-Led Initiatives and Excitements
12:15 - 13:15   Lunch and Poster Session

FORCES Testbeds

13:15 - 13:45    Air Transportation Testbed
Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)
13:45 - 14:00    Reliable Distribution Nets
Saurabh Amin (MIT)
14:00 - 14:15    Power Systems Testbeds
Ian Hiskens (Michigan)

Industry Collaboration Roundtable

14:15 - 15:15    Datta Godbole (Honeywell); Hamed Okhravi (MIT Lincoln Laboratory);
Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT); Ian Hiskens (Michigan); Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt)
15:15 - 15:30   Break
15:30 - 16:00    FORCES Education and Outreach
16:00 - 16:15    Meeting Wrap Up
Shankar Sastry (Berkeley)
16:15 - 17:15    Principal Investigators and NSF Program Managers Discussion
(By Invitation Only)