NSF Award Funds Cyber-Physical Systems Research for Driving Safety Enhancement

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Professor Junmin Wang has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) award for his research project, “CPS: Synergy: Cyber-Human Vehicle Systems for Driving Safety Enhancement,” in collaboration with The Ohio State University Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Psychology. 

Wang is principal investigator for the multidisciplinary research project funded over four years.  Co-principal investigators are Associate Professor Xiaorui Wang, Associate Professor Haijun Su and Professor Richard Jagacinski of computer engineering, mechanical engineering and psychology, respectively, representing Ohio State’s College of Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences.

Advances in CPS will enable capability, adaptability, resiliency, safety, security and usability that will transform the way people interact with engineered vehicle systems.  This project will develop onboard-adaptable and personalized human driver models and create driver-specific vehicle motion control systems, potentially enhancing driving safety and reducing the likelihood of collision.  Driving simulator, high-fidelity simulations and real vehicle experiments will be part of the research. 

“The award supports synergistic multidisciplinary team research on next-generation, personalized, active vehicle safety control systems by leveraging recent advances in onboard computation and vehicle connectivity technologies,” Wang said.  “The research could lead to a new model for addressing future mobility challenges by creatively capitalizing on technology advances in relevant fields.”

Wang is the founding director of the Vehicle Systems and Control Laboratory at Ohio State.  His research interests include control, modeling, estimation and diagnosis of dynamical systems, specifically for conventional and electrified ground vehicles, sustainable mobility and mechatronic systems.  Wang’s research has been funded by federal agencies and industrial companies worldwide.

The National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science.  To learn more about cyber-physical systems click here.

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By leveraging recent vehicle computation advances and connectivity technologies, cyber-human-vehicle systems can onboard learn and adapt to individual human drivers’ driving characteristics -- to achieve personalized vehicle active motion control for driving safety enhancement.
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