ITR/SI+AP: Active Sensor Networks with Applications in Marine Microorganism Monitoring

EIA-0121141南加州大学Requicha ITR/SI+AP：主动传感器网络及其在海洋微生物监测中的应用拟议中的研究将网络、分布式机器人、纳米机器人和微生物学结合在一起，努力开发和应用技术，对海洋或供水系统等水环境中的微生物种群进行现场实时监测。应用程序上下文提供了来自实际系统的实验的反馈，该反馈对于这里提出的信息技术(IT)研究的进展是必不可少的。该项目解决了IT在这十年中面临的两个关键挑战：从虚拟应用程序转向物理应用程序，以及从宏观应用程序转向微观和纳米应用程序。IT部门的重点是研究物理耦合的可扩展信息基础设施(PCSII)，这种基础设施可以有效地“嵌入互联网”。拟议的PCSII中的传感器和执行器必须具有较小的物理尺寸，与要监测的微生物的尺寸相当。它们必须大量部署，以达到前所未有的空间和时间分辨率，这是调查环境条件和微生物之间因果关系所必需的。对能力有限和不同种类的大量这样的设备的控制和协调对联网、分布式协调和分布式算法提出了重大挑战。检测和识别微生物的传感是另一个挑战，将通过使用纳米机器人扫描探针显微镜技术来解决。

EIA-0121141Requicha, AristidesUniversity of Southern CaliforniaITR/SI+AP: Active Sensor Networks with Applications in Marine Microorganism MonitoringThe proposed research combines networking, distributed robotics, nanorobotics, and microbiology in an effort to develop and apply technology for the in-situ, real-time monitoring of microbial populations in aquatic environments, such as the ocean or water supply systems. The application context provides feedback from experiments with realistic systems, and this feedback is essential to the progress of the Information Technology (IT) research proposed here. This project addresses two key challenges for IT during this decade: moving from virtual to physical applications, and moving from macro to micro and nano.The IT focus is on the study of Physically-Coupled Scalable Information Infrastructures (PCSIIs), which effectively "embed the internet". The sensors and actuators in the proposed PCSII must have small physical dimensions, comparable to those of the microorganisms to be monitored. They must be deployed in very large numbers to achieve the unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution necessary to investigate the causal relationships between environmental conditions and microorganisms. Control and coordination of a multitude of such devices of limited and heterogeneous capabilities raise major challenges for networking, distributed coordination and distributed algorithms. Sensing for detection and identification of microorganisms is another challenge, which will be tackled by using nanorobotic Scanning Probe Microscope technology.