Decentralized Structural Control Strategies with Wireless Sensing and Actuation

本研究的目的是开发新的结构控制方法，利用先进的传感和无线通信技术。 这项研究的关键智力价值是结构控制方法的发展，非常适合嵌入在无线传感和控制系统定义的分布式计算架构。 具体来说，将开发分散控制策略来解决无线传感和控制网络的通信范围、带宽和延迟问题。 可供选择的包括新的和新颖的分散控制方案，如基于市场的策略，将控制问题建模为商品市场，结构控制方法的仿真结果，以及分散控制与无线传感和驱动技术相结合的实验验证。我们将与国际合作者一起进行大规模的实验测试，以评估和验证这项研究和开发工作。这项研究有望一方面提高土木结构的安全性和性能，另一方面将无线通信技术扩展到结构工程实践中。 这项研究将展示如何低成本的无线设备可以被纳入，以减轻过度的振动影响所造成的动力负载可靠和经济。 无线传感和驱动设备和结构控制实验将通过斯坦福大学向研究生和本科生以及更广泛的教育社区进行演示。通过网站提供视频和教学资料，并通过讲座、出版物和讲习班。 该项目的多学科性质将提供机会，教育未来的结构工程师有更好地了解有关无线通信和信息及其在结构工程实践中的有效利用的问题。

The objective of this research is to develop novel structural control methods that take advantage of advanced sensing and wireless communication technology. The key intellectual merit of this research is the development of structural control methods that are ideally suited for embedment in a wireless sensing and control system defined by a distributive computational architecture. Specifically, decentralized control strategies will be developed to address the issues of communication range, bandwidth and latency of a wireless sensing and control network. Deliverables include new and novel decentralized control schemes such as a market-based strategy that models the control problem as a commodity market, simulation results of the structural control methods, and experimental validation of combining decentralized controls and wireless sensing and actuation technologies. Large-scale experimental tests will be conducted with international collaborators to evaluate and validate this research and development effort.This research is expected to enhance the safety and performance of civil structures on one hand and expand the utilization of wireless communication technology to structural engineering practice on the other. This research will demonstrate how low-cost wireless devices could be incorporated to mitigate excessive vibration effects caused by dynamics loads reliably and economically. The wireless sensing and actuation devices and structural control experiments will be demonstrated to graduate and undergraduate students and to the broader educational communities through Stanford?s web sites with videos and instruction kits and also through lectures, publications and workshops. The multi-disciplinary nature of the project will provide opportunities to educate future structural engineers to have better understanding of issues related to wireless communication and information and their effective utilization in the practice of structural engineering.