1.208 Resilient Infrastructure Networks
Fall 2013
Cyber-physical infrastructure systems are prone reliability and security failures.
Instructor: Saurabh Amin
Lecture:
MW2.30-4
(1-150)
Office Hour: Friday 2-3pm or by appointment
(1-276)
Information:
Control algorithms and game-theoretic tools to enable resilient operation of large-scale infrastructure networks. Dynamical network flow models, stability analysis, robust predictive control, fault and attack diagnostic tools. Strategic network design, routing games, congestion pricing, demand response, and incentive regulation. Design of operations management strategies for different reliability and security scenarios. Applications to transportation, logistics, electric-power, and water distribution networks.
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Course outline
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are being increasingly deployed in critical infrastructures such as transportation, electric-power, water, and supply-chain networks. These deployments facilitate real-time monitoring and closed-loop control capabilities employing the advances in sensor-actuator networks, the internet of ''everything'', data-driven analytics, and machine-to-machine interfaces. Thus, CPS operations depend on the synergistic interactions of computational and physical components. In addition, in many cases, actions of human decision makers directly affect CPS operations.Recent natural disasters (e.g., hurricane Sandy) and malicious attacks (e.g., Stuxnet attack) have exposed the vulnerabilities of nation's critical infrastructures to faults and attacks. Improving infrastructure resilience to security attacks and/or random faults requires the design of diagnostic and control techniques. This will enable proactive response to disruptions, including the design of incentives for human decision makers.
Notably, two distinct domains of tools have emerged to address this challenge: i) Robust control over networks primarily address safety and performance issues in control over sensor-actuator networks; ii) Game theory and theory of Incentives provide means to analyze strategic interactions of human decision makers.
This course focuses on applying the aforementioned tools to problems in infrastructure resilience. Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to identify the challenges faced by the designers and operators of cyber-physical infrastructure systems.
Students who are interested to take the course but are unsure about the prerequisites should contact the instructor.
Announced on 22 August 2013 11:05 a.m. by Saurabh Amin
