Turning the Civil and Mechanical Infrastructures into a "Smart" Structures and Systems through the Adoption of Bio-inspired Sensing and Actuation Technologies

本次研讨会的目的是制定一个路线图，规划一个全面的双边美台团队和中心为基础的研究和实施计划，实现重大进展，在土木和机械基础设施的基础上？智能结构和系统，通过适应生物启发的传感和驱动技术？台湾位于世界上地震活动频繁的地区，几乎每十年就发生一次毁灭性的地震，而且几乎每年都有沿着西北太平洋热带气旋的主要路径发生。由于国家台湾理事会（NSC）的广泛投资，台湾今天是减灾领域公认的领导者。 在这次研讨会上，我们提出，在多种自然灾害缓解方法方面仍然有可能取得重大改进，并且可以通过采用生物启发传感和驱动概念等变革性技术来实现。来自学术界、政府和工业界的双边科学家小组将被邀请为综合研究前沿做出贡献并制定框架，该框架旨在振兴美台在满足紧迫社会需求的新兴研究方面的合作。

The objective of this workshop is to develop a road map for planning a comprehensive bilateral US-Taiwan team- and center-based research and implementation plan for realizing significant advances in civil and mechanical infrastructure based on ?smart structures and systems through the adaptation of bio-inspired sensing and actuation technologies?. Taiwan is situated in a highly seismically active region of the world with devastating earthquakes occurring almost every decade and along the primary path of Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclones occurring almost yearly. Because of the extensive investment by the National Taiwan Council (NSC), Taiwan today is a recognized leader in the hazard mitigation field. In this workshop we proposed that significant improvements in multiple nature hazard mitigation approaches are still possible and can be achieved through the adoption of transformative technologies such as bio-inspired sensing and actuation concepts. Bilateral groups of scientists from academia, government, and industry will be invited to contribute and to develop a framework for an integrated research frontier that is envisioned to revitalize US-Taiwan collaboration on emerging research serving pressing societal needs.