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The challenges posed by the Internet of Things (IoT) render existing security measures ineffective against emerging networks and devices. These challenges include heterogeneity, operation in open environments, and scalability. In this paper, we propose SST (Secure Swarm Toolkit), an open-source toolkit for construction and deployment of an authorization service infrastructure for the IoT. The infrastructure...
As modern unmanned aerial systems (UAS) continue to expand the frontiers of automation, new challenges to security and thus its safety are emerging. It is now difficult to completely secure modern UAS platforms due to their openness and increasing complexity. We present the VirtualDrone Framework, a software architecture that enables an attack-resilient control of modern UAS. It allows the system...
The abundance of activity trackers and biosignal sensors as well as the evolution of IoT and communication technologies have considerably advanced the concept of Quantified-Self. Nowadays there are several frameworks and applications that realize the concept, focusing though strictly on specific areas, from daily use to professional activities such as sport and healthcare. This work proposes a versatile,...
The focus of the project is to create new approaches to the study of the past through the use of innovative aero-space technologies to measure, analyse and reconstruct the ancient landscape and its remaining natural and anthropic traces. The équipe, based at the University of Padua, is constituted by archaeologists, egyptologists, mechanical and software engineers, physicists and computer scientists...
We present a novel, industry-first approach to the deployment of a practical, edge analytics framework and describe the instantiation of a framework under challenging constraints within heterogeneous environments. We propose an approach for industry deployment where knowledge graphs are used to capture domain knowledge for reusability, maintainability, and data stream communication normalization for...
Squat is a popular movement and its relevance on strengthening potential relies on its technical execution. While there are several appropriate techniques and several common mistakes, guidelines can help in teaching and developing a proper form. Squatphy is a system based on low-cost technologies to assess and improve squatting technique with real-time feedback. Four execution criteria based on guidelines...
Swarms of drones are increasingly being requested to carry out missions that cannot be completed by single drones. Particularly in the field of civil security, strong needs emerge in terms of surveillance and observation of hostile, distant or extended areas. Currently, existing solutions do not meet this demand, as they are generally based on too heavy infrastructures or over-processing, without...
Blade tip timing (BTT) measurement systems enable the measurement of blade vibrations by means of contactless sensors mounted in the engine casing. Despite this sophisticated and expensive instrumentation is commercially available since years, there is no simple and standard laboratory procedure to calibrate a tip timing system. Performance of BTT measurement systems sensors and processing methods...
Smart vehicles equipped with computers and wireless communication devices are emerging on the road. These vehicles can drive themselves, communicate to other vehicles, connect to the Internet, and provide value-added services to the drivers and passengers. With the advent of such technology, it is possible to form a "platoon" of autonomous vehicles on the road, where they follow a common...
Situational awareness involves the timely acquisition of knowledge about real-world events, distillation of those events into higher-level conceptual constructs, and their synthesis into a coherent context-sensitive view. We explore how convergent trends in video sensing, crowd sourcing and edge computing can be harnessed to create a shared real-time information system for situational awareness in...
Online experimentation have become a common resource in education since the virtual and remote labs (VRLs) allowed the users to interact with a system without been in a laboratory environment. The science and engineering areas needs to teach their student in experimental practices and this implies, in most cases, costly and complex systems. This work shows how new technologies allows a low cost online...
The planning of an autonomous mission for UAVs requires more than the description of the points to be visited along the trajectory by which a certain task must be performed. However, the way in which such missions are planned does not provide conditions for the aircraft or the ground control system to find alternative ways of carrying out the mission, in the event of a risk or other situation different...
Small unmanned aircraft are being used in an increasing number of applications requiring cooperation between multiple heterogeneous vehicles. Multi-agent control algorithms can be implemented to control such systems but often require an underlying communications framework with integrated payloads. This paper presents a modular heterogeneous multi-agent control framework with payload integration. This...
This paper presents a fixed-wing autopilot code base called ROSplane. ROSplane utilizes the ROSflight board, firmware, and driver, which was developed to make autopilot development faster, easier and cheaper. By leveraging a textbook and university course content, the autopilot facilitates education and accelerates research and development. The textbook provides high-level documentation for the code...
In the past decade, with the rapid development of wireless communication and sensor technology, ubiquitous smartphones equipped with increasingly rich sensors have more powerful computing and sensing abilities. Thus, mobile crowdsensing has received extensive attentions from both industry and academia. Recently, plenty of mobile crowdsensing applications come forth, such as indoor positioning, environment...
This paper will discuss an embedded system for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). The system designed is a working proof of concept prototype made for an SHM system using Piezoelectronic transducers as the sensors. The system uses pulse-echo and pitch-catch techniques to find the location of damage and the width of the damage. If damage is present, the system will generate an email and send to the...
TinyLink is a holistic system for rapid development of IoT applications. It adopts a top down approach for both hardware and software designs of IoT applications. Taking the application code as input, TinyLink automatically generates the hardware configuration as well as the software binary code executable on the targeted hardware platform. Objective of this demo is to present how the the hardware...
With the diffusion of sensors and smart devices, and the advances in connection technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a very popular topic. Because of the creation and expansion of new and existing sensor networks, the need to define a common standard for sensors' interfaces representation has arisen. Currently it is difficult to make different sensors and sensors' networks interoperate...
An existing psycholinguistics experiment is extended with EEG measurement to analyze the spatiotemporal distribution of activities during a bilingual lexical access task. A low-cost custom trigger hardware was developed to provide event timestamps of the experiment stimulus and response to the EEG apparatus. The experiment was repeated on a subject group of 20 students, and our processing software...
Self-adaptation provides a principled way to deal with change during operation. As more systems with strict goals require self-adaptation, the need for guarantees in self-adaptive systems is becoming a high-priority concern. Designing adaptive software using principles from control theory has been identified as one of the approaches to provide guarantees. However, current solutions can only handle...
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