ITR/SI+AP: Active Sensor Networks with Applications in Marine Microorganism Monitoring

ITR/SI AP：主动传感器网络在海洋微生物监测中的应用

• 批准号: 0121141
• 负责人: Aristides A. Requicha
• 金额: $ 156.79万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-15 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0121141&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; SI+AP; Active; Sensor; Networks

EIA-0121141Requicha, AristidesUniversity of Southern CaliforniaITR/SI+AP: Active Sensor Networks with Applications in Marine Microorganism MonitoringThe proposed research combines networking, distributed robotics, nanorobotics, and microbiology in an effort to develop and apply technology for the in-situ, real-time monitoring of microbial populations in aquatic environments, such as the ocean or water supply systems. The application context provides feedback from experiments with realistic systems, and this feedback is essential to the progress of the Information Technology (IT) research proposed here. This project addresses two key challenges for IT during this decade: moving from virtual to physical applications, and moving from macro to micro and nano.The IT focus is on the study of Physically-Coupled Scalable Information Infrastructures (PCSIIs), which effectively "embed the internet". The sensors and actuators in the proposed PCSII must have small physical dimensions, comparable to those of the microorganisms to be monitored. They must be deployed in very large numbers to achieve the unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution necessary to investigate the causal relationships between environmental conditions and microorganisms. Control and coordination of a multitude of such devices of limited and heterogeneous capabilities raise major challenges for networking, distributed coordination and distributed algorithms. Sensing for detection and identification of microorganisms is another challenge, which will be tackled by using nanorobotic Scanning Probe Microscope technology.

EIA-0121141 Requicha，AristidesUniversity of Southern California ITR/SI+AP：主动传感器网络在海洋微生物监测中的应用拟议的研究结合了网络，分布式机器人，纳米机器人和微生物学，致力于开发和应用技术，用于在水生环境中实时监测微生物种群，如海洋或供水系统。应用程序上下文提供了来自现实系统实验的反馈，这种反馈对于这里提出的信息技术（IT）研究的进展至关重要。该项目旨在解决这十年来IT领域面临的两个关键挑战：从虚拟应用到物理应用，以及从宏观应用到微观和纳米应用。IT领域的重点是研究物理耦合可扩展信息结构（PCSII），它有效地“嵌入互联网”。拟议的PCSII中的传感器和致动器必须具有与待监测的微生物相当的小的物理尺寸。它们必须大量部署，以达到调查环境条件和微生物之间因果关系所需的前所未有的空间和时间分辨率。控制和协调大量这样的设备的有限和异构的能力提出了重大挑战，网络，分布式协调和分布式算法。用于检测和识别微生物的传感是另一个挑战，这将通过使用纳米机器人扫描探针显微镜技术来解决。