Cyber-Physical Systems
Research is conducted in two laboratories:
- The Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS Lab) was established in 1993 and is one of the world’s leading research teams in the area of embedded real-time systems, holding a strong expertise on operating systems, hypervisors, software design methodologies, cloud computing, trustworthy AI, heterogeneous computing platforms, hardware acceleration on FPGA, and cyber-security.
- The Center of ICT for Complex Industrial Systems and Processes (ICT-COISP), established in 2001, holds a strong expertise on modeling, simulation, monitoring, control and optimization of industrial processes, and artificial intelligence. The group is particularly focused on the iron and steel sector, but is active also in other process and manufacturing industries.
Research Areas
Real-Time Software
The area focuses on real-time operating system (RTOS) to properly support real-time safety-critical applications. It investigates scheduling and synchronization algorithms to ensure low and predictable latencies in the computational activities
Cyber-security and safety by design
The RETIS Lab investigates methods for improving the robustness of cyber-physical systems against cyber attacks and software misbehaviors, adopting model-driven engineering (MDE) approaches from the early design stages
Predictable and Trustworthy AI
The objective is to increase the predictability and the trustworthiness of AI algorithms and deep networks enable their use in safety-critical cyber-physical systems, as autonomous vehicles, advanced robots, space crafts, and medical systems
Modeling, optimization, and control of industrial processes
The center applies Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Bio-inspired Optimization tools and other approaches belonging to the vast field of Artificial Intelligence
RT Cloud Computing
Nowadays, Cloud Computing infrastructures are being challenged by increasing demand for evolved cloud services characterized by heterogeneous performance requirements