IoT-driven control underpins many IoT applications in industries and smart cities. In contrast to best-effort IoT often found in consumer markets, there remain daunting challenges to develop IoT systems that not only monitor but also control physical systems in a dependable fashion. We will highlight the dependability challenges caused by communication delays, data loss and resource constraints of IoT. We will further discuss cyber-physical co-design as a fundamental approach to achieve dependable control based on IoT.

Bio:

　　Chenyang Lu is the Fullgraf Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests span Internet of Things, real-time and embedded systems, wireless sensor networks and cyber-physical systems. His current research focus on real-time cloud systems, industrial Internet of Things and Internet of Medical Things. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks from 2011 to 2017. He is currently Area Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal and Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems and Real-Time Systems Journal. He also chaired premier conferences such as IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS). He is the author and co-author of over 150 research papers with over 17,000 citations and an h-index of 57. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Virginia in 2001, the M.S. degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997, and the B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1995. He is a Fellow of IEEE.