Collaborative Research: Self-Powered Sensory Nerve System for Civil Structures Using Hybrid Forisome Actuators

这项合作研究旨在利用人类机械感受器的概念作为开发结构健康监测和诊断系统的新方法，该系统协同整合了最近发现的植物蛋白forisomes，这是一种能够传感和驱动的新型非生命生物材料。 我们将通过使用forisomes作为机械感受器，神经纤维和脊髓神经束到节点和中央处理单元来开发民用结构的感觉神经系统。 这一建议的意义在于基于forisome的感觉信息传输的巨大潜力，用于机械和民用系统的监测和诊断。这项研究的结果将作为一个创新的分布式数据处理和传输系统，模仿人体的发展积木，并将导致一个从根本上独特的自我诊断技术的工程系统。该项目还将把研究成果和实验室经验纳入两所大学的工程课程，通过他们的高级设计课程，以及通过更专业的课程，如：新材料设计和加工，智能系统，纳米材料，和forisomes为基础的超大规模集成电路。

This collaborative research is aimed at utilizing the concept of human's mechanoreceptors as a new approach to the development of structural health monitoring and diagnostic systems that synergistically integrate the recently discovered plant-protein forisomes, a novel non-living biological material capable of sensing and actuation. We a sensory nerve system for civil structures will be developed by using forisomes as the mechanoreceptors, nerve fibers, and spinocervical tract to the nodal and central processing units. The significance of this proposal lies in the tremendous potential of forisome-based sensory information transfer for monitoring and diagnostics of mechanical and civil systems. Results of this research will serve as building blocks for the development of an innovative distributed data processing and transfer system that mimics those of a human body, and will lead to a fundamentally unique self-diagnostic technique for engineered systems. This project will also incorporate research results as well as laboratory experiences into the engineering curriculum at both universities through their senior design courses, as well as through more specialized courses on such topics as: novel materials design and processing, smart systems, nano-materials, and forisomes-based VLSI.