US-Japan Cooperative Program on Sensors, Smart Structures, and Mechatronic Systems

0451274PI: Billie F. Spencer jr .伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校该项目的目标是建立一个美日联合工作组，在传感器、智能结构和机电系统方面制定一个双边研究计划，以满足双方的利益，并整合两国各自的优势。信息技术、通信和小型化等使能技术的进步，加上对更高性能、更高功能和以更低成本增强安全性/可靠性的不断增长的需求，使传感器技术和基于传感器的智能系统的工程处于主要增长的门槛。这两个国家在该领域都有积极的研究和开发活动，但它需要美国和日本的研究人员共同努力，以确定最有效和最有意义的合作主题和领域。将制定一项全面的计划，包括目标和目的、主要研究方向和重点、预期结果和里程碑、所需资源和其他补充信息，如工业和教育组成部分及其价值，以及它们对民用基础设施、航空航天和机电系统以及地震减灾的实际应用的影响。这项工作的成功完成将促进更广泛的国际学生交流，通过试验台实验和研究数据的技术转让，教育/培训该地区的工程师进行智能结构设计，并促进智能结构和集成机电系统与地区工业的合作。

0451274PI: Billie F. Spencer, Jr.University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe objective of this project is to establish a US-Japan Joint Working Group to develop a bilateral research program in Sensors, Smart Structures, and Mechatronic Systems that meets the mutual interests and integrates the respective strengths of the two countries. Advances of enabling technologies such as information technology, communication and miniaturization coupled with ever increasing needs for higher performance, increased functionality and safety/reliability enhancement at reduced costs have set the sensor technology and the engineering of sensor-based intelligent systems at the threshold of major growth. The two countries have vigorous research and development activities in the field, but it requires efforts by both US researchers and Japanese researchers to identify topics and areas of most effective and meaningful collaboration. A comprehensive plan will be developed, including goals and objectives, major research directions and thrusts, anticipated outcome and milestones, resources needed, and other supplemental information as industrial and educational components and their values, and practical applications as they impact on the civil infrastructures, aerospace and mechatronic systems, and earthquake hazard mitigation. Successful completion of this effort will facilitate broader international student exchange, technology transfer thru test bed experiments and transfusion of research data, education /training of engineers in the region for smart structure design, and promote smart structures and integrated mechatronic systems activity with regional industries.