National Workshop on Future Sensing Systems to be held August 26-28, 2002

国家未来传感系统研讨会综述和目标材料科学、微机械制造和生物工程系统的最新技术进步使廉价、强大、无处不在的传感的梦想很容易实现。随之而来的是无处不在的感知带来了极大量的数据，而最终用户实际上想要的是信息(决策和答案)。将分布式计算和高度分散的网络与新的传感器技术和无线通信创新相结合，有可能克服时间、规模、材料和环境的障碍。传感器信息学到目前为止还没有被视为传感器社区的基础，尽管所有接受调查的专家都认为它是实时可用性的核心。我们提议举办一个关于未来传感器系统的国家研讨会-一个工具，开始研究人员在整合在公共空间工作的众多利益集团正在开发的可能性的道路上。研讨会的重点将是向其他研究人员展示从事新传感器科学研究的不同学科的未来能力，这些研究人员可能会在他们的当地空间做类似或值得称赞的工作。工业研究和应用开发的整合将提供这种吸引力，并为大规模、廉价生产提供一条途径。一个例子是坚固耐用、高精度的MEMS加速计，因为它们被应用于汽车安全气囊触发器。例如，人们希望医学研究人员能够意识到DARPA开发的用于对非金属结构件进行成像的先进成像技术，并可以成为现有生物成像技术的改进。我们希望推动社区(1)从仅仅提供数据转向提供信息和答案；(2)为长期研究建立路线图；(3)建立广泛的伙伴关系；以及(4)解决教育需求。这些机会和问题是许多政府机构以及工业界和学术界共同的，将由传感器技术、NSF民用和机械系统分部赞助，来自动力系统和控制(CMS)、DARPA、NIH、能源部、NIST、NASA、AFOSR、ONR、ARO、ARL和NRL的共同赞助。我们预计将有100多人参加，其中70人是大学研究人员，所有费用都将由这项提案支付。国家科学基金会的硬交付将是一份研讨会报告，该报告将成为国家科学基金会土木和机械系统司面向传感器的研究的未来前沿。该报告将由联合绩效指标(格拉泽和皮斯特)撰写，并得到指导委员会和参与者的广泛指导和投入。该报告将在2003年1月15日之前提交给国家科学基金会。

A National Workshop on Future Sensing SystemsSummary and ObjectivesRecent technological advancements in material science, micro fabrication of MEMS, andbioengineered systems, have made the dream of inexpensive, powerful, ubiquitous sensing areadily achievable reality. With ubiquitous sensing comes extreme amounts of data, when the enduser actually wants information (decisions and answers). Integration of distributed computingand extremely dispersed networking with new sensor technologies and wireless communicationsinnovations, has the potential to overcome barriers of time, scale, materials and environment.Sensor informatics has not been seen as fundamental to the sensor community to date, althoughall experts polled for this document agreed it is central to real-time usability.We propose a National Workshop on future Sensing Systems - a vehicle to start researchers onthe road to integrating the possibilities being developed by the many interests working in thecommon space. The workshop will focus on exposing future abilities of various disciplinesworking on new sensor science to other researchers possibly doing similar or complimentarywork in their local space. Integration of industrial research and application development willprovide that pull and an avenue to large-scale, inexpensive production. An example is the currentavailability of rugged, highly accurate, MEMS accelerometers due to their application asautomotive air-bag triggers. It is hoped, for instance, that the medical researchers will becomeaware of advanced imaging technologies developed by DARPA to image non-metallic structuralpieces, and can become an improvement on existing bio-imaging techniques. We hope to pushthe community to (1) move from merely providing data to providing information and answers; (2)build road maps for long-term research; (3) build broad partnerships; and (4) address educationalneeds.These opportunities and problems are common to many agencies of Government, as well asindustry and academia, and is to be sponsored by Sensors Technology, NSF Division of Civil andMechanical Systems, with co-sponsorship from Dynamic Systems and Control (CMS), DARPA,NIH, DOE, NIST, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, ARO, ARL, and NRL. We are expecting over 100attendees, with 70 of them university researchers for whom all expenses will be covered by thisproposal. The hard deliverable to NSF will be a workshop report which will serve as the leadingedge for future of sensor-oriented research at the Civil and Mechanical Systems Division, NSF.The report will be written by the co-PIs (Glaser and Pister) with extensive guidance and inputfrom the steering committee and participants. The report will be presented to NSF by 15 January,2003.