2026 CPS-IoT Week Day 4
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Keynote: Hybrid Systems and Control?
- SenSys: Morning sesoin
- SenSys: Protection & Performance: Keeping it Secure
- EMPalm: Exfiltrating Palm Biometric Data via Electromagnetic Side-Channel
- Jailbreaking Embodied LLMs via Action-Level Manipulation
- On Securing the Software Development Lifecycle in IoT RISC-V Trusted Execution Environments
- Resolving Energy Storage for Intermittent Inference
- R2DShield: Robust Object Detection in Real-Time via Bayesian Input Shielding
- Characterizing Security and Privacy Risks in Smart Home IoT Device Access Sharing
- On the Energy Cost of Post-Quantum Key Establishment in Wireless Low-Power Personal Area Networks
- RAN-Aware Delay Compensation for Delay-Sensitive Protocols in Cellular Networks
- Decoupling Timing Estimation and Convergence for Efficient and Accurate Exploration of Configurations in Edge DDL Training
- (Interesting) Short Paper: Simulation-Based Performance Characterization of Common NOR Flash File Systems
- ApproxBit: Efficient Video Analytics through Latency-Aware Offloading with Learned Binary Codes
- MoViD: View-Invariant 3D Human Pose Estimation via Motion-View Disentanglement
- (Interesting) TIRA: Task-Based Intermittent Remote Attestation
- SenSys: Garden Parties & Happy Smart Cities
- (Interesting) SoilX: Calibration-Free Comprehensive Soil Sensing through Contrastive Cross-Component Learning
- FlourSpec: Cost-Effective Spectral Analysis for Trace-Level Detection of Flour Adulteration
- FruitScope: A Non-Invasive Fruit Ripeness Sensing System via Multi-Resolution FMCW Design and Acoustic Sensing
- Short Paper: Counting Parked Bicycles on the Edge - A TinyML Smart City Application
- ENTS: Experiences in Co-Designed Environmental Sensing
- MoiréLens: Bringing Schlieren Imaging into Real-World Environments Using Moiré Patterns
- MagTach: Non-Intrusive Long-Range Magnetic Tachometry via Harmonic-Aware Inductive Sensing
- VehicleSense: Adaptive Sensor-Video Learning for Vehicle Type Identification and Overload Detection
- SPIDER: Lightweight Speaker Identification on Resource-Constrained Embedded Devices
- RippleSense: Scalable and Efficient Wideband Spectrum Sensing
- From Cheap to Chic: Enhancing Music Playback Quality of Budget Earphones via Hardware-Aware Learning
Keynote: Hybrid Systems and Control?
Prof. Georgios Fainekos, Toyota
- Achieve Shibuya scramble, robots moving through crowds
- Robot needs to learn behavior of crowds, aka ML
- Can the risk be bounded to a desirable level?
- Modern ICCPS is heavily focused on GPU use at the edge
- Able to apply control theory for obstacle avoidance
- CVaR-BF
- Performed better than reinforcement learning alone
- Even humans struggle with pushing a cart (tractor trailer problem)
- Hybrid A star is “classical” but modern method for global path planning
- Proposing, safe model predictive diffusion
- Expands to make it safe, the safety is baked into the diffusion
- Basic MPPI, seminal work on control
- Can get better results by applying controls to ML methods
- Have implemented auto parking methods with a trailer
- Toyota looks for inters every year in December
- No formal process, email in December
- Adversarial training through environmnet optimization
- With Guassian splatting you are able to project objects into environment
- Using it to find the “most” difficult configurations
- Can train adversarial agents
- Able to have zero shot sim to real deployment
- Future goals of Toyota
- FRD (Future mobility)
- Designing robots for deployment in hospitals
SenSys: Morning sesoin
Skipped to practice presentation
SenSys: Protection & Performance: Keeping it Secure
EMPalm: Exfiltrating Palm Biometric Data via Electromagnetic Side-Channel
Haowen Xu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute); Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang (Florida International University); Lei Ma, Jun Dai, Alexander Wyglinski, Xiaoyan Sun (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Missed.
Jailbreaking Embodied LLMs via Action-Level Manipulation
Xinyu Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Qiang Yang (University of Cambridge); Leming Shen, Zijing Ma, Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Missed.
On Securing the Software Development Lifecycle in IoT RISC-V Trusted Execution Environments
Annika Wilde (Ruhr University Bochum); Samira Briongos (NEC Laboratories Europe); Claudio Soriente (GMV Spain); Ghassan Karame (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Keyfort
- Secure update and migration support
- State continuity
- Secure enclave local time
- RISC-V TEE
- Have source code online
Resolving Energy Storage for Intermittent Inference
Rei Barjami, Antonio Miele (Politecnico di Milano); Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano, Uppsala University, RI.SE)
- LEACS
- Dynamically selecting the capacitor
- Bigger capacitor has higher leakage
- Uses pre-recorded traces
- Searches through possible capacitors
- Used to increase the throughput of mode inference
- Hit negligible benefits at 5 capacitors
R2DShield: Robust Object Detection in Real-Time via Bayesian Input Shielding
Shuo Huai, Zhixin Xie, Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University)
- Using NN to pre-process image to generate a purified image
Characterizing Security and Privacy Risks in Smart Home IoT Device Access Sharing
Yinxin Wan, Ting Xu (University of Massachusetts Boston); Tran Ngoc Bao Huynh, Jun Dai, Xiaoyan Sun (Worcester Polytechnic Institute); Kuai Xu, Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University)
- Addressing access sharing (ie. txt, email, qr code) insecurity
- Finding
- Coarse grained access policy
- Weak sharing controls
- Missing/weak credentials
- Inability to revoke device access
- Inability to revoke sharing invitations
- Lack of notifications for acceptance
- Uncontrolled re-sharing
- Over-privileged access
- Unintended privacy exposure
On the Energy Cost of Post-Quantum Key Establishment in Wireless Low-Power Personal Area Networks
Tao Liu, Gowri Ramachandran, Raja Jurdak (Queensland University of Technology)
- Targeting non TCP/UDP applications
- Keys must be transported over a smalled share linka
- Created a post-quantum key exchange mechanism for BLE
- Link layer communication has high energy overhead
- Post quantum is double or more the energy consumption compared to no compression
RAN-Aware Delay Compensation for Delay-Sensitive Protocols in Cellular Networks
Yuxin Liu, Tianyang Zhang, Qiang Wu (University at Buffalo SUNY); Ju Ren (Tsinghua University); Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University); Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY)
- There are internal buffers inside of RAN
- Retransmission
- Uplink scheduling
- Userspace tools for collecting diagnostic information in android userspace
- Created CellNinja for mobile network diagnostic tool
- Able to support real-time message delivery
- GitHub repositories available
Decoupling Timing Estimation and Convergence for Efficient and Accurate Exploration of Configurations in Edge DDL Training
Joshua Daley, Pengzhan Hao, Yifan Zhang (Binghamton University)
- Distributed method for training NN
- Shared weights between individual workers
- Single machine evaluation for distributed system
(Interesting) Short Paper: Simulation-Based Performance Characterization of Common NOR Flash File Systems
Yannick Loeck (Hamburg University of Technology); Christian Dietrich (TU Braunschweig); Ulf Kulau (Hamburg University of Technology)
- Based on SpacePatch
- Runs on RIOT OS
- Provide simulator for testing various FS and flash types
- VFlashSim
- LittleFS has limitation on write speed
- SPIFFS is very slow
- https://github.com/2ck/flash-playground
- Coffee file system is a possible alternative
ApproxBit: Efficient Video Analytics through Latency-Aware Offloading with Learned Binary Codes
Hyunseung Kim, Sheetal Prasanna (Purdue University); Yin Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Somali Chaterji ((Purdue University); Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, KeyByte)
- NN based compression
- Optimize the interface to move computation to the server
- Fixed resolution input
MoViD: View-Invariant 3D Human Pose Estimation via Motion-View Disentanglement
Yejia Liu, Hengle Jiang, Haoxian Liu, Runxi Huang, Xiaomin Ouyang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Trying to address when the viewpoint changes, ie on moving orbot
- Has human position datasets
(Interesting) TIRA: Task-Based Intermittent Remote Attestation
Fatemeh Arkannezhad, Nader Sehatbakhsh (UCLA)
- Video presentation
- https://ssysarch.ee.ucla.edu
- Aimed at verifying in the integrity of onboard code for embedded systems
- Partial task attestation at the start of ecah task
- 18/4 memory/code overhead
SenSys: Garden Parties & Happy Smart Cities
(Interesting) SoilX: Calibration-Free Comprehensive Soil Sensing through Contrastive Cross-Component Learning
Kang Yang, Yuanlin Yang, Yuning Chen, Sikai Yang (University of California, Merced); Xinyu Zhang (University of California, San Diego), Wan Du (University of California, Merced)
- 60B worth of produce in a year
- Wireless sensor in the ground with antennas in the ground
- Very strict vertial constraints
- SoilCares, measures nutrients in the soil
- SCARF, other systems
- LoRa based wireless sensing, calibration free
- Use LoRa + VNIR data to NN for soil parameters
- There are other commercial soil moisture sensors
FlourSpec: Cost-Effective Spectral Analysis for Trace-Level Detection of Flour Adulteration
Shanwen Chen, Haiyan Hu, Yinan Zhu, Qian Zhang (HKUST)
- Difficult to detect with just spectroscopy
- Using LED-array spectrometer
- NN methods for spectral reconstruction and classification
FruitScope: A Non-Invasive Fruit Ripeness Sensing System via Multi-Resolution FMCW Design and Acoustic Sensing
Shanmu Wang, Omid Abari (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Combine mmWave and acoustic sensing
- Take different range bins to increase resolution
- Ground truth dataset is collected sparsely
- Prior work, Wi-Fruit
Short Paper: Counting Parked Bicycles on the Edge - A TinyML Smart City Application
Jan Stenkamp, Mathis Hunke, Cem Karatas, Steffen Kirchhoff, Christoph Knaden, Paul Naebers, Lige Zhao, Benjamin Karic (University of Münster); Fabian Gieseke (University of Münster, University of Copenhagen); Nina Herrmann (University of Münster)
- 8 MB Flash and RAM
- No clue on battery lifetime
ENTS: Experiences in Co-Designed Environmental Sensing
John Madden (University of California Santa Cruz); Stephen Taylor (University of California San Diego); Laura Jaliff (Northwestern University); Aaron Wu (University of California San Diego); Alec Levy, Jack Lin (University of California Santa Cruz); Ahmed Falah (Alexandria University); Tyler Potyondy (University of California San Diego); Josiah Hester (Georgia Institute of Technology); George Wells (Northwestern University); Yaman Sangar (Georgia Institute of Technology); Pat Pannuto (University of California San Diego); Colleen Josephson (University of California Santa Cruz)
Me
MoiréLens: Bringing Schlieren Imaging into Real-World Environments Using Moiré Patterns
Linzhen Zhu, Runqiu Wang, Yi Rong, Ke Sun (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
- Schlieren image detects changes in gas concentration
- Moire is the interaction between a display and CMOS camera
- Want to detect airflow visualization
- Issues with alignment between the screen and camera
- Increased resolution gives greater distance
- https://ambient-intelligence-lab-umich-eecs…
MagTach: Non-Intrusive Long-Range Magnetic Tachometry via Harmonic-Aware Inductive Sensing
Rahul Sidramappa Hoskeri, Hua Huang (University of California Merced)
- Magnetometer is main contribution, have limited range
- Inductive sensor array for higher order harmonics
- Filtering amplified the harmonics
- NN methods for extracting harmonics
- Accurate up to 1m
- Up to 10kHz
VehicleSense: Adaptive Sensor-Video Learning for Vehicle Type Identification and Overload Detection
Ashutosh Kr Sinha, Sushant Dagaji Desale, Nirjay Kumar, Rahul Mishra (IIT Patna)
- Acceleration sensor to record vibration signature
- NN method to determine class probabilities
SPIDER: Lightweight Speaker Identification on Resource-Constrained Embedded Devices
Markus Gallacher, Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology); Arun Sankar Muttathu Sivasankara Pillai (South East Technological University); Utz Roedig (University College Cork); Willian Lunardi, Michael Baddeley (Technology Innovation Institute)
- https://open-earable.teco.edu
- Models are too big for small mcu
- Don’t want to offload to the cloud
- Can “compound scale” the NN
- Fundamentally a way to scale down NN models for speech recondition
- For an NN ensemble, only take high confidence segments
RippleSense: Scalable and Efficient Wideband Spectrum Sensing
Andreas Kuster, Yanbo Zhang (Nanyang Technological University); Mo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Had to skip to catch the bus
From Cheap to Chic: Enhancing Music Playback Quality of Budget Earphones via Hardware-Aware Learning
Changshuo Hu, Hung Manh Pham (Singapore Management University); Ting Dang (The University of Melbourne); Jiannan Li, Rajesh Balan (Singapore Management University); Dong Ma (University of Cambridge)
Had to skip to catch the bus