National Workshop on Future Sensing Systems to be held August 26-28, 2002

未来传感系统全国研讨会摘要与目标材料科学、微机电系统微制造和生物工程系统的最新技术进步，使廉价、强大、无处不在的传感梦想成为可能。当终端用户真正需要信息（决策和答案）时，无处不在的传感带来了海量的数据。将分布式计算和极其分散的网络与新的传感器技术和无线通信创新相结合，有可能克服时间、规模、材料和环境的障碍。迄今为止，传感器信息学尚未被视为传感器社区的基础，尽管为本文档投票的专家一致认为它是实时可用性的核心。我们建议举办一个关于未来传感系统的国家研讨会，这是一个工具，可以让研究人员走上整合公共空间中许多利益相关者正在开发的可能性的道路。研讨会的重点是向其他可能在当地从事类似或互补工作的研究人员展示不同学科在新传感器科学方面的未来能力。工业研究和应用开发的结合将为大规模廉价生产提供动力和途径。一个例子是坚固耐用，高精度，MEMS加速度计由于其应用于汽车安全气囊触发器的当前可用性。例如，希望医学研究人员能够意识到DARPA开发的用于非金属结构片成像的先进成像技术，并能成为现有生物成像技术的改进。我们希望推动社区(1)从仅仅提供数据转向提供信息和答案；(2)建立长期研究的路线图；(3)建立广泛的伙伴关系；(4)解决教育需求。这些机遇和问题是许多政府机构以及工业界和学术界共同面临的问题，由传感器技术，NSF民用和机械系统部门赞助，并由动态系统和控制（CMS）， DARPA，NIH， DOE， NIST， NASA， AFOSR， ONR， ARO， ARL和NRL共同赞助。我们预计将有超过100名与会者，其中70名是大学研究人员，他们的所有费用将由本提案支付。向NSF交付的成果将是一份研讨会报告，该报告将作为NSF土木和机械系统部面向传感器的未来研究的前沿。该报告将由联合pi （Glaser和Pister）在指导委员会和参与者的广泛指导和投入下撰写。该报告将于2003年1月15日前提交给美国国家科学基金会。

A National Workshop on Future Sensing SystemsSummary and ObjectivesRecent technological advancements in material science, micro fabrication of MEMS, andbioengineered systems, have made the dream of inexpensive, powerful, ubiquitous sensing areadily achievable reality. With ubiquitous sensing comes extreme amounts of data, when the enduser actually wants information (decisions and answers). Integration of distributed computingand extremely dispersed networking with new sensor technologies and wireless communicationsinnovations, has the potential to overcome barriers of time, scale, materials and environment.Sensor informatics has not been seen as fundamental to the sensor community to date, althoughall experts polled for this document agreed it is central to real-time usability.We propose a National Workshop on future Sensing Systems - a vehicle to start researchers onthe road to integrating the possibilities being developed by the many interests working in thecommon space. The workshop will focus on exposing future abilities of various disciplinesworking on new sensor science to other researchers possibly doing similar or complimentarywork in their local space. Integration of industrial research and application development willprovide that pull and an avenue to large-scale, inexpensive production. An example is the currentavailability of rugged, highly accurate, MEMS accelerometers due to their application asautomotive air-bag triggers. It is hoped, for instance, that the medical researchers will becomeaware of advanced imaging technologies developed by DARPA to image non-metallic structuralpieces, and can become an improvement on existing bio-imaging techniques. We hope to pushthe community to (1) move from merely providing data to providing information and answers; (2)build road maps for long-term research; (3) build broad partnerships; and (4) address educationalneeds.These opportunities and problems are common to many agencies of Government, as well asindustry and academia, and is to be sponsored by Sensors Technology, NSF Division of Civil andMechanical Systems, with co-sponsorship from Dynamic Systems and Control (CMS), DARPA,NIH, DOE, NIST, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, ARO, ARL, and NRL. We are expecting over 100attendees, with 70 of them university researchers for whom all expenses will be covered by thisproposal. The hard deliverable to NSF will be a workshop report which will serve as the leadingedge for future of sensor-oriented research at the Civil and Mechanical Systems Division, NSF.The report will be written by the co-PIs (Glaser and Pister) with extensive guidance and inputfrom the steering committee and participants. The report will be presented to NSF by 15 January,2003.