CAINSCenter for Autonomous Intelligent

Network Systemswww.cains.cs.ucla.edu

Town Hall Meeting

HSSEAS

Friday June 8

Center for Autonomous IntelligentNetwork Systems

• Founded in 2001 - Initial sponsors: ONR and NSF

• Mission Statement:

– Forum for Intelligent Autonomous Systems research – Interdisciplinary collaboration: technology, tools, and

test beds– Joint research sponsored by Government and Industry

• Director: Mario Gerla

• Scientific Board: Rajive Bagrodia, Babak Daneshrad, Leonard Kleinrock, Izhak Rubin, Mani Srivastava,

John Villasenor, Clifford Anderson (ONR)

Why a Center for Autonomous Intelligent Systems Research?

• There is growing interest in the collective behavior of “swarms” of intelligent agents:

– Unattended Airborne Vehicles (Internet in the sky)– Vehicles in the urban grid– Underwater floating sensors

• The challenge: scalable, fault tolerant, environment-aware systems for complex missions

• Applications: communications, defense, security, search and rescue, industrial control, environmental monitoring, planetary exploration.

SURVEILLANCE MISSION

SURVEILLANCE MISSION

AIR-TO-AIR MISSION

STRIKE MISSION

FRIENDLY GROUND CONTROL

(MOBILE)

RESUPPLY MISSION

SATELLITE COMMS

Unmanned Control Platform

COMM/TASKING

COMM/TASKING

MannedControl Platform

COMM/TASKING

UAV-UAV NETWORK

Tactical Ad Hoc Network

UAV-UGV NETWORK

Car to Car communications for Safe Driving

Vehicle type: Cadillac XLRCurb weight: 3,547 lbsSpeed: 65 mphAcceleration: - 5m/sec^2Coefficient of friction: .65Driver Attention: YesEtc.

Vehicle type: Cadillac XLRCurb weight: 3,547 lbsSpeed: 45 mphAcceleration: - 20m/sec^2Coefficient of friction: .65Driver Attention: NoEtc.

Vehicle type: Cadillac XLRCurb weight: 3,547 lbsSpeed: 75 mphAcceleration: + 20m/sec^2Coefficient of friction: .65Driver Attention: YesEtc.

Vehicle type: Cadillac XLRCurb weight: 3,547 lbsSpeed: 75 mphAcceleration: + 10m/sec^2Coefficient of friction: .65Driver Attention: YesEtc.

Alert Status: None

Alert Status: Passing Vehicle on left

Alert Status: Inattentive Driver on Right

Alert Status: None

Alert Status: Slowing vehicle aheadAlert Status: Passing vehicle on left

Vehicles as Urban Sensors

VSN-enabled vehicle

Inter -vehiclecommunications

Vehicle -to-roadsidecommunications

Roadside base station

Vid e o Ch e m.

Sensors

S to ra g e

Systems

P ro c.

Research and Technology Objectives

• Collaborations among scientists in different Departments and Schools on autonomous agent projects, exploiting complementary skills and sharing specialized resources

• Research partnerships with existing Centers and with other universities and with industry and government research labs.

Partnerships

• BOEING Phantom Works• Northrop Grumman• Raytheon • Boella Research Lab, Torino, Italy• University of Bologna, Italy• Selex (Finmeccanica), Italy

CAINS Activities

• Current Projects :– Emergency networking using swarms (NSF)– DAWN project (MURY, ARMY)– International Technical Alliance (IBM, ARMY)– DAMASCO (Italian Reasearch Council, Boella)– Urban Networks (MICRO, STM)

• On going collaborations:– Biology inspired systems (Prof Renato Lio’, Cambridge Univ, UK; Prof

Bellavista, Univ of Bologna) – Tactical Systems: Boeing Phantoms Works– CAMPUS Vehicular Testbed (Politecnico Torino, Istituto Boella, University

of Bologna)

The CAMPUS Vehicle Testbed

Recent Publications

“Time-critical Underwater Sensor Diffusion” U. Lee et al Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), Special issue on Recent Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2007

“MobEyes: Smart Mobs for Urban Monitoring with a Vehicular Sensor Network, E. Magistretti et al, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 5, September 2006.

“The Challenges of Building Scalable Mobile Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks for Aquatic Applications”, Jun-Hong Cui et al, Special Issue of IEEE Network on Wireless Sensor Networking, vol.20, no.3, pp.12-18.