undergraduate
course project

Decision and Control Lab

fall 2020 - spring 2021

I worked with Professor Kyriakos Vamvoudakis on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in GT's Decision and Control Lab. I analyzed the tradeoffs between accuracy and robustness in CPS and also applied these metrics to a simulated urban air mobility problem defined by geofencing and spatio-temporal logical constrainted.

my work

I analyzed a hypothetical Urban Air Mobility case where a drone's operation is dictated using spatio-temporal logic. This image shows geofenced areas that describe acceptable and unacceptable states for the vehicle.

The following framework is aplpied in the MATLAB/Simulink Simulation to model the drone subject to physical constraints and the applied spatio-temporal logic objectives.

The distance from an "unsafe" area is quantified and used as feedback for the controller over successive runs.

A fundamental tradeoff is shown between accuracy and robustness for a given filter. Such properties can be defined, but are inherently traded off in deep learning systems.