NSF Workshop on Sensors and Signal Processing

控制理论和技术已成功应用于航天工程、航海、制造等多个领域。然而，直到最近，它们才被认真地应用于建筑物、桥梁等土木工程结构中，因为它们在地震或风力条件下的安全性和混凝土设计。这类应用的潜在和未来研究需求是最近举行的全国结构控制研究研讨会上讨论的焦点，1990年10月在南加州大学(USC)举行。结构控制技术的一个重要组成部分是与新的传感器、执行器和信号处理相关的组件，这些在南加州大学研讨会期间没有涉及到。这些方面是从技术和实际两方面考虑成功实施结构控制的关键，结构控制代表着一个迅速发展的跨学科领域。本次研讨会将汇聚许多活跃在结构控制和行为、传感器和执行器技术领域的重要学术和行业研究人员，以及信号处理，以确定对结构性能提供最大潜在影响的研究方向。这项工作将为开发和实施提供新结构设计安全的控制技术所需的技术基础提供一个重要组成部分。它还将就控制技术在升级和修复易受自然灾害威胁的现有脆弱结构方面的潜在使用提供宝贵的见解。

Control theories and techniques have been successfully applied in many areas such as aerospace engineering, navigation, and manufacturing. However, only recently their applications to civil engineering structures such as buildings and bridges for their safety and confort design in seismic or wind conditions have been seriously pursued. The potential and future research needs for such applications were the focal points of discussion during a recent National Workshop on Structural Control Research, held at the University of Southern California (USC) in October, 1990. One essential component of the structural control technology is that related to new sensors, actuators, and signal processing which was not covered during the USC Workshop. These aspects hold the key to the successful implementation of structural control from both technological and practical considerations that represent a rapidly evolving field of cross-disciplinary nature. This Workshop will bring together a number of key academic and industry researchers active in structural control and behavior, sensors and actuator technology, and signal processing to identify those research directions which offer the greatest potential impact on structural performance. This effort will provide a critical component of the technical basis required for the development and implementation of control technology in providing the design safety of new structures. It will also provide valuable insights on the potential use of control technology in the upgrading and rehabilitation of vulnerable existing structures which are exposed to the threat of natural hazards.