CoTRE - Complexity Twin for Resilient Ecosystems
Lead Research Organisation:
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
Department Name: Sch of Aerospace, Transport & Manufact
Abstract
As we accelerate into the 21st century, our backbone engineering systems are becoming increasingly complex and connected. Many of our critical infrastructure ecosystems are comprised of interdependent sub-systems, each governed by complex non-linear dynamics and cascade interactions. The CoTRE project will build a mathematical mirror to the UK's critical infrastructure ecosystems. The "complexity twin" will be a world first attempt to understand the resilience of large-scale complex systems that increasingly face threats from man-kind and nature. The project will address the fundamental theoretical aspects of the stability of complex systems and work with a variety of critical infrastructure operators to develop short term and long term resilience investment strategies.
Planned Impact
The CoTRE project constitutes world's first "complexity twin" of its connected infrastructures - focused on understanding the mathematical relationship between the resilience of individual functional sub-systems and the resilience of networked systems. The project will address the fundamental theoretical aspects of the stability of complex networks. By bringing together academic and industrial experts from network theory, non-linear dynamics, critical infrastructure (CI) operators, the translational impact will transform the way CI ecosystems operate and invest, as well as inform both the government and secondary industries. Unlike simulation-based digital twins, the complexity twin offers mathematical understanding of resilience bounds. As a concrete outcome, the project will deliver the world's first demonstration of a complexity twin based on UK's 3 critical infrastructure systems.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Weisi Guo (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Broomandi P
(2021)
Dynamic Complex Network Analysis of PM2.5 Concentrations in the UK, Using Hierarchical Directed Graphs (V1.0.0)
in Sustainability
Moutsinas G
(2021)
Uncertainty of Resilience in Complex Networks With Nonlinear Dynamics
in IEEE Systems Journal
Pagani A
(2021)
Neural Network Approximation of Graph Fourier Transform for Sparse Sampling of Networked Dynamics
in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
Zou M
(2023)
Local Assortativity Affects the Synchronizability of Scale-Free Network
in IEEE Systems Journal
Zou M
(2023)
Uncertainty quantification of multi-scale resilience in networked systems with nonlinear dynamics using arbitrary polynomial chaos.
in Scientific reports
Description | Our insight into the resilience of networked complex systems has led to impact in both research, commerce, and policy in a range of areas: - Infrastructure: informed ideas on maintenance and data collection for water distribution engineering via British Water and Department for Transport - Engineering: informed ideas on sensing and data collection for complex engineering systems for UK aerospace in discussion with BAE Systems - Defence/Security: informed the underlying research funded by UK Defence & Security via Alan Turing Institute to the GUARD project |
First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
Description | Behavioural Analytics for Defence and Security |
Amount | £99,315 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ACC6005162 |
Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 11/2019 |
Description | Physical Graph Based Wireless IoT Security with No Key Exchange (GraphSec) |
Amount | £235,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | A1GW441 |
Organisation | PETRAS |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 05/2023 |
Description | Invited Talk at British Water |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on networked resilience to industrial leaders at British Water |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |