'Control and System Integration of Micro- and Nano-Scale Systems' Panel and Workshop

智力优势：计划举办一个研讨会，将两组不同的研究人员和教育工作者聚集在一起，其中一组负责微型和纳米系统问题，另一组负责控制和系统集成设计问题，具体来说，他们各自处理：--极小的尺寸--可以将大量的执行器和传感器放在一个很小的空间中。-分布式控制和传感技术--执行器/传感器的最佳位置、协调控制、数据提取等--许多不同物理现象在许多不同长度和时间尺度上的相互作用--难以量化的复杂现象。-系统分析/设计工具，用于捕捉跨越时间和空间尺度的耦合--工具可能有助于理解物理学。-制造的巨大变异性，对微量化学品的敏感依赖--系统不确定性。-已经建立了控制理论工具来解决稳健性问题--对不确定性进行量化和设计。-需要专用、精密和昂贵的设备来测量基本量--测量有限，可能会有噪音，而且很难调试系统误差。-系统识别工具、实验设计、数据挖掘--数学工具可能需要帮助，研究合作可能是有益的。建议支持一个研讨会，以支持“微纳系统的控制和系统集成”小组和研讨会。这笔资金用于支持大约80名美国学术研究人员和教育工作者在微米和纳米尺度上会面和讨论控制和系统集成领域。研讨会的参与者将关注多个领域，包括微制造、纳米制造、控制优化、生物化学系统和建模，以了解合作可以在哪里产生新的发展，以及研究如何与教育相结合。广泛影响：研讨会的目的是促进不同学科之间的合作，以开发微纳尺度的集成系统，而不是微和纳米组件。讲习班的目的是评估这一领域的现状，并寻找可能导致新技术的未来方向，以及开发供学术界和工业界使用的新教育材料。

Intellectual Merit:A workshop is planned to bring two disparate groups of researchers and educators together, those who deal with micro and nano systems issues and those who deal with control and system integrations design issues, specifically they each deal with:- Extremely small length scales -- can pack lots of actuators and sensors into a tiny space. - Distributed control and sensing techniques -- optimal placing of actuators/sensors, coordinated control, data extraction, etc.- The interaction of many different physical phenomena across many different length and time scales -- complex phenomena, difficult to quantify. - Systems analysis/design tools built to capture coupling across temporal and spatial scales -- tools may help understand physics.- Large manufacturing variability, sensitive dependence on trace quantities of chemicals -- system uncertainty. - Control theory tools have been built to address robustness -- quantify and design for uncertainty.- Need dedicated, delicate and expensive equipment to measure basic quantities -- measurements are limited and may be noisy and it is hard to debug system errors. - System identification tools, design of experiments, data mining -- mathematical tools may need help, research collaboration may be beneficial.Support for a workshop is recommended to support the "Control and System Integration of Micro- and Nano-Scale Systems" Panel and Workshop. The funds are be used to provide support for approximately 80 US academic researchers and educators to meet and discuss the field of control and systems integration on the micro- and nano-length scales. Workshop participants will look at a number of areas including micro fabrication, nano fabrication, control optimization, bio-chem systems and modeling to see where collaborations could yield new developments and how the research can be integrated with education.Broad Impact: The purpose of the workshop is to foster collaboration between different disciplines to develop micro and nano scale integrated systems, as opposed to micro and nano components. The workshop is aimed at assessing the current state of this area and to look for future directions that could lead to new technology as well as develop new educational materials for use in academia and industry.