Proposal for Participant Support in the IPSN Extremem Sensing Competition 2009. To be held on April 13, 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

卡梅隆(Kamin)D.Whitehouse，弗吉尼亚大学为2009年IPSN极端传感竞赛的参与者提供支持建议智力价值：该项目为美国学生参加极端传感竞赛(XSC)提供旅行和会议支持，该竞赛是作为第八届ACM/IEEE传感器网络信息处理会议(IPSN 2009)的一部分举行的。在XSC中，学生、研究人员或行业参与者建立一个传感器系统，用于执行预先指定的任务。该活动要求学生解决一些开放的挑战，涉及传感、控制、信号处理、无线网络以及这些领域之间的相互作用。2009年的比赛考虑了身体区域网络(BANS)和死亡推算。更广泛的影响：极端传感比赛的大多数参与者是初级研究生，该活动允许他们在研究生课程的早期与CPS研究社区接触。没有资助的学生将无法参加ISPN和参加XSC，他们将被特别考虑支持。来自代表性不足群体的学生也得到了特别考虑。广告强调了对这些群体的接触。该活动还向大型网络物理系统研究社区展示了学生参与者和项目，因为ISPN 2009是网络物理系统(CPS)周的一个组成部分，比赛对所有CPS周的参与者开放。

Cameron (Kamin) D. Whitehouse, University of VirginiaProposal for Participant Support in the IPSN Extreme Sensing Competition 2009Intellectual Merit: This project provides travel and conference support for U.S. students to participate in the Extreme Sensing Competition (XSC), being held as part of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2009). In the XSC, students, researchers, or industry participants build a sensor system that is used to perform a pre-specified task. The event requires students to address a number of open challenges involving sensing, control, signal processing, wireless networking, and the interactions between these areas. The 2009 competition considers body area networks (BANs) and dead reckoning.Broader Impact: Most participants in the Extreme Sensing Competition are junior graduate students and the event allows them to engage with the CPS research community early in their graduate program. Unfunded students who would otherwise be unable to attend ISPN and participate in the XSC are given special consideration for support. Students from underrepresented groups are also given special consideration for support. Advertising emphasized outreach to these groups. The event also showcases the student participants and projects to the large cyber-physical systems research community, as ISPN 2009 is a component of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Week and the competition is open to all CPS Week attendees.