SBIR Phase I: Research on Software for a Multisensor/Actuator Parallel Processor Network

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目建议研究和开发通用多传感器/执行器智能节点的模块化软件，其中包含商业嵌入式微控制器和/或数字信号处理器（iPod）。该软件提供了一个自主的多处理器网络，具有可操作的计算数据处理和驱动能力，可以“实现更高效、更安全、更令人满意的产品和服务，以提高工作和家庭环境的生活质量，并增强人类的能力”。它将由一个仪器开发环境（IDE）、一个类似activex的对象（iBroker）和一个嵌入式虚拟机（EVM）组成。IDE为PC和ipod生成运行时命令（applet）。iBroker作为中介，通过主机将ipod的嵌入式微控制器连接到PC和/或更大的网络。驻留在每台iPod上的EVM利用下载的小程序，并通过主机与iBroker等通信。虽然一些软件组件已经在这里和其他地方的程序中进行了测试，但需要对基于传感器的多处理器系统的模块化、覆盖式程序进行研究，以充分利用其网络功能，同时提供传感器/执行器信息的实时多处理。在第一阶段，该软件将在Scitefair最近的流量测量节点网络上进行测试。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes to research and develop modular software for generic multisensor/actuator intelligent nodes containing commercial embedded microcontrollers and/or digital signal processors (iPod). The software provides an autonomous multiprocessor network with operational computational data processing and actuation capabilities which can 'enable more efficient, safer and more satisfying products and services to improve quality of life in both work and home environments and to augment human capabilities'. It would consist of an instrument development environment (IDE), an ActiveX-like object (iBroker), and an embedded virtual machine (EVM). The IDE generates run-time commands (applets) for the PC and the iPods. The iBroker, as intermediary, links the iPods embedded microcontrollers to a PC and/or a larger network through a master. The EVM residing on each iPod utilizes downloaded applets and communicates through a master to the iBroker and beyond. While some software components have been tested in programs both here and elsewhere, a research effort is needed on a modular, over-arching program for a sensor based multiprocessor systems that can fully utilize their networking capabilities while providing real time multiprocessing of sensor/actuator information. In Phase I, this software will be tested on Scitefair's recent flow measuring nodal network.