Digital Twin: innovative methods for the integration, analysis and consumption of multisensory data in Tactile Internet

数字孪生：触觉互联网中多感官数据集成、分析和消费的创新方法

• 批准号: RGPIN-2018-05600
• 负责人: ElSaddik, Abdulmotaleb
• 金额: $ 3.35万
• 依托单位: University of Ottawa
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=712581
• 关键词: Digital; Twin; innovative; methods; integration

New actuators, sensors and technologies will emerge and will be embedded in everyday things, creating the so-called Tactile Internet. The Tactile Internet is a network or network of networks that uses multisensory information including haptics for the purpose of facilitating multimodal interactions with things (real or virtual) in perceived real time. Currently, there is an immense knowledge void for the integration, analysis and consumption of the Internet of Things (IoT)- multisensory data with a reaction time in the order of milliseconds. Application domains include some key sectors of the Canadian economy such as smart healthcare, industrial automation, transportation systems, education and serious games. The proposed program fits the ICT Target Areas (2016 2020) with particular reference to: a) Communications Networks and Services addressing transformative research on software-defined networks, e.g., Quality of Experience; b) Internet of Things/Machine-to-Machine Systems, particularly a scalable IoT infrastructure as well as integration, analysis, and consumption of sensor data; and c) Human Interaction with Digital Media covering the design and development of effortless interactions and effective tools for creating and populating physical and virtual objects and spaces. The applicant has contributed significantly to the area of Interactive Multimedia Computing and Communication, including collaborative haptic multimodal environments. Through the proposed research program, he will take the existing concepts a step further and develop, among other methods, algorithms and protocols to support multisensory data fusion and multimodal interactions, and to further grow edge computing systems. The proposed research program will place emphasis on the outstanding training of highly qualified personnel (HQP). HQP will be exposed to an interdisciplinary blend of research areas including haptics/virtual reality and augmented reality, communications network, quality of experience modeling, machine/deep learning approaches, and hands-on prototyping, as well as to a research facility that features state-of-the-art haptics technology and sensory environment. In addition, HQP will be exposed to and trained with skills and expertise that are in high demand in today's competitive job market.

新的执行器、传感器和技术将会出现，并将嵌入到日常事物中，创造出所谓的触觉互联网。触觉互联网是一个网络或网络的网络，它使用包括触觉在内的多感官信息，以便于在感知的真实的时间内与事物（真实的或虚拟的）进行多模态交互。 目前，物联网（IoT）的集成，分析和消费存在巨大的知识空白-反应时间为毫秒级的多传感器数据。应用领域包括加拿大经济的一些关键部门，如智能医疗保健，工业自动化，交通系统，教育和严肃游戏。 拟议的计划适合ICT目标领域（2016 - 2020），特别提到：a）通信网络和服务，解决软件定义网络的变革性研究，例如，体验质量; B）物联网/机器对机器系统，特别是可扩展的物联网基础设施以及传感器数据的集成，分析和消费;以及c）人类与数字媒体的交互，涵盖轻松交互的设计和开发以及用于创建和填充物理和虚拟对象和空间的有效工具。 申请人对交互式多媒体计算和通信领域做出了重大贡献，包括协作触觉多模态环境。通过拟议的研究计划，他将进一步发展现有的概念，并开发支持多传感器数据融合和多模式交互的算法和协议，以及进一步发展边缘计算系统。 拟议的研究计划将把重点放在高素质人才（HQP）的优秀培训。HQP将接触到跨学科的研究领域，包括触觉/虚拟现实和增强现实，通信网络，体验建模质量，机器/深度学习方法和实践原型，以及具有最先进的触觉技术和感官环境的研究设施。此外，HQP将接触和培训的技能和专业知识，是在当今竞争激烈的就业市场的高需求。