Integrated Sensing: Collaborative Research: Dynamic Objective-Oriented Mobile Heterogeneous Sensor Networks for Coordinated Control

面向移动的移动的异构传感器网络的协调控制这一建议的重点是一个全面的研究大型，移动的广告hocreconfigurable网络的协调控制，使用coordinatedauxiliary飞行作为一个指导性的例子问题。状态估计提供了控制和通信之间的联系，它接纳异构传感器，也就是说，使用支持可伸缩性的概念来组合不同或不同精度的数据。复杂性的管理和设计原则的保存是开发具有许多组件的可行的、可调的、面向任务的系统的关键。这种合作研究建议的智力价值在于将协调控制、动态状态估计、自组织网络管理、资源分配和容错等同源和不同的元素结合在一起。它的目的是提供一种形式主义，其中传感器网络的方法可以被集成为一个系统的设计过程的一部分，专注于一个特定的控制目标。这提供了一个框架的方法发展嵌入传感器网络的context的控制performance.the更广泛的影响，这项研究是，它结合在一起的工具和技术，从不同的领域使用的概念信息质量。该团队是跨系统工程的多学科，问题领域影响了各个专业领域的一系列基本问题。这种跨越通信、控制、网络和评估的联系是当前设计技术的瓶颈。

Objective-Oriented Mobile Heterogeneous Sensor Networks forCoordinated ControlThis proposal focuses on a comprehensive study of large, mobile ad hocreconfigurable networks for coordinated control, using coordinatedautonomous flight as a guiding example problem. State estimationprovides a link between control and communications which admitsheterogeneous sensors, that is the combining of dissimilar ordifferent accuracy data using concepts which underpin datafusion. Management of complexity and preservation of design principlesare keys to the development of workable, tunable, mission-orientedsystems with many components.The intellectual merit of this collaborative research proposal hingeson the drawing together of cognate and disparate elements fromcoordinated control, dynamic state estimation, ad hoc networkmanagement, resource assignment, and fault tolerance. Its aim is toprovide a formalism in which the methods of sensor networking may beintegrated as part of a systematic design process focused on achievinga specific control objective. This provides a framework for thedevelopment of methodologies for embedding a sensor network in acontext of control performance.The broader impact of this research is that it ties together tools andtechniques from distinct areas using concepts of informationquality. The team is multi-disciplinary across a gamut of SystemsEngineering and the problem area impacts a range of fundamentalproblems in the individual areas of specialization. This linkageacross communications, control, networking and estimation is aperceived bottleneck of current design techniques.