Project description
Formal assurance for resilient cyber-physical systems
Cyber-physical systems underpin many critical ICT applications, from automated vehicles to industrial robots. Ensuring their safe and reliable operation in dynamic and unpredictable environments remains a major challenge. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the REACT-CPS project aims to address this challenge by combining adaptive control with formal runtime monitoring. The goal is to integrate signal temporal logic monitors within the control loop, enabling detection of safety violations and automated corrective actions at runtime. In the end, REACT-CPS will bolster the foundations of trustworthy and resilient ICT systems, contributing to safer and more dependable critical infrastructures in Europe.
Objective
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) form the backbone of safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, aerospace, and industrial automation. Ensuring their safety and reliability is a pressing challenge, especially under runtime faults, nonlinearities, and evolving uncertainties. Beyond maintaining control, CPS must remain formally safe under continuously changing system dynamics. REACT-CPS aims to address this challenge by embedding formal runtime monitoring into adaptive control to create a resilient framework for CPS. First, I will design a fault-tolerant adaptive control strategy capable of maintaining stability and performance under diverse faults, nonlinearities, and uncertainties, supported by control-theoretic stability guarantees. Second, I will develop an adaptation logic interface that leverages Signal Temporal Logic monitors to detect property violations in real time and trigger structured adaptation signals. This integration will enable the controller to react both to physical signals and to formally monitored safety trends, establishing a unified framework with formal guarantees on robustness. I will use diverse CPS benchmarks and combine analytical proofs with systematic testing using state-of-the-art test generation strategies to empirically validate the performance of the designed controller.
REACT-CPS will deliver a novel control-verification framework that advances the state-of-the-art by tightly coupling adaptive control with runtime formal assurance. REACT-CPS will release open-source tools, benchmarks, and reproducible workflows to foster transparency, community uptake and reuse. It will strengthen the scientific foundations of safety assurance in CPS while equipping me with cross-disciplinary expertise in control theory, formal verification, and software engineering. Ultimately, the results will support safer and more trustworthy CPS in domains with high societal relevance, including mobility, automation, and healthcare.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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4365 ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE
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