CSR-CPS: Smart Sticks

CSR-CPS：智能棒

• 批准号: 0720863
• 负责人: Jyh-Charn Liu
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0720863&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; CPS; Smart; Sticks

As one of the oldest tools discovered by human, sticks come in different shapes and sizes to serve such purposes as self-defense, hunting, walking, or simply for fun. This smart stick project aims to add sensing and computing capabilities to sticks for a broad range of applications: walking assistance (fall alert), barrier detection (guides for the vision-impaired), location reporting and inquiry (terrain navigation). It also explores new interface techniques for cyber physical system (CPS) designs. Three different types of sticks (quad and simple walking sticks, guide sticks and walkers) will be used as the physical platforms for our study. Mini-gyro and pressure sensors will be used to generate raw data for pedestrian motion sensing. And digital filters will be developed to model and monitor pace states using low power FPGA or microcontrollers. This research will advance knowledge in how to design plug-and-play architectures for CPS building blocks. The broad impacts of this project consist of: creating new technological capabilities on a ubiquitous physical platform; assisting users who rely on sticks to improve their quality of life; providing a meaningful scenario for undergraduate students to explore their design abilities.

作为人类发现的最古老的工具之一，棍子有不同的形状和大小，用于自卫、狩猎、散步或只是为了娱乐。这个智能手杖项目旨在为手杖增加传感和计算能力，用于广泛的应用：行走辅助(跌倒警报)、障碍物检测(视障人士指南)、位置报告和查询(地形导航)。它还探索了用于数字物理系统(CPS)设计的新接口技术。我们将使用三种不同类型的手杖(四根手杖和简单手杖、导向手杖和助行器)作为我们研究的物理平台。微型陀螺仪和压力传感器将被用来产生原始数据，用于行人运动传感。此外，还将开发数字过滤器，利用低功耗的现场可编程门阵列或微控制器来模拟和监控起搏状态。这项研究将增进关于如何为CPS构建块设计即插即用体系结构的知识。该项目的广泛影响包括：在无所不在的物理平台上创造新的技术能力；帮助依赖棍子的用户提高他们的生活质量；为本科生提供一个有意义的场景来探索他们的设计能力。