Cyber Physical Research Focus

Internet of Things
Wireless Sensor Networks
Indoor and Outdoor RF Localisation
Data Analytics for IoT sensors
Security for Smart Homes
FPGA-based computers and controllers
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Improved Flight Endurance
Improved Aerodynamic stability
Expanded applications and capabilities
Disposable drones
Safety systems
(Bio)Medical (Tele)Robotics
Design and control of compliant (soft) systems
Novel (dynamic, non-stationary) environments that challenge traditional assumptions
New methods for fast decision making under uncertainty
Sub-mm needle placement
Adaptive aids for the visually impaired
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Bringing robust intractable approaches for decision making to become tractable
Autonomous decision making in uncertain and unpredictable scenarios
Robot motion planning
Robust robot autonomy
Large scale decision making in real time
Software Defined Networking
Security of SDN
SDN for Internet of Things (IoT)
SDN for 5G Cellular Networks
SDN QoS Routing using Constraint Programming
SDN on end hosts
Blockchain Technology
Security of blockchain platforms
Blockchain applications
Legged Robots
Reductionist mechanisms for quadrupedal locomotion
Low-cost control of dynamically unstable and cyclic-balancing bipeds
Low- and intermediate-level gait synthesis for bipeds
Biomimetic and bio-inspired mechanisms for walking

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Information Technology and Electrical Engineering