CI-TEAM: Exploiting Cyber-Infrastructure for Creation and Use of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models

这个CI团队演示将创建一个全面的，多学科的工程模型，以支持蛇启发的机器人系统的硅原型。 以蛇为灵感的机器人有许多潜在的应用，包括医学、土木工程、搜索和救援以及国土安全。 该模式将在PI开发的一套协调的多学科课程中创建，并在合作机构之间同时授课，并通过远程学习系统访问。 CI团队计划雄心勃勃地使用网络协作和教育技术，在“工程信息学”课程中建立一套核心课程的原型，该课程跨越我们的机构，并将计算机和信息科学与传统工程领域结合起来。该团队是一个高度互动的团队，来自四所大学的学科小组，由计算机科学家和工程师组成，他们拥有创建共享模型和教育交付。 该团队面临的科学挑战是制作一个工程模型，该模型集成了机器人组件的语义描述、行为和仿真软件、蛇形机器人控制和导航软件，以及执行分析、组件替代和使命评估所需的工具。 教育方面的挑战是开发多学科和科学丰富的课程材料。 目标是教育学生，使他们能够跨越和整合学科：语义学，工程建模和计算工具。 该项目将深入连接工程和计算机科学的不同子领域，使新的跨学科培训工程师能够快速创建新的蛇启发机器人设计。更广泛的影响：该项目有助于将工程学转变为“信息学”学科，并拓宽了计算机科学与工程学之间的接口。 CI团队的目标是围绕蛇形机器人领域建立“工程信息学”课程的内容，并将其作为整合工程和计算机科学基本概念的基础。 此外，工程模型中包含的技术成果将支持两个主要的国家需求领域。 首先，它推进了蛇启发的机器人系统的最新技术水平，并产生了一个供教育工作者和研究人员使用的知识库。 其次，通过与NIST和DOE的合作伙伴积极合作，该团队将把概念转化为ISO和W3C赞助的正在进行的标准工作。最后，工程信息学学科的发展将有助于网络基础设施精明的劳动力，并通过整合这个示范项目的结果与持续努力扩大参与也将创建一个多元化的网络基础设施劳动力和用户社区。

This CI-Team demonstration will create a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, engineering model to support in-silico prototyping of snake-inspired robotic systems. Snake-inspired robots have many potential applications, including those in medicine, civil engineering, search and rescue, and homeland security. This model will be created during a coordinated set of multi-disciplinary classes developed by the PIs and concurrently taught across the partner institutions and accessible via distance learning systems. The CI-Team plans an ambitious use of cyber-collaboration and education technologies to prototype a set of core courses in a curriculum for "Engineering Informatics" that spans our institutions and unites computer and information sciences with traditional engineering domains.The team is a highly inter-disciplinary group from four universities consisting of computer scientists and engineers with the complimentary expertise needed to create both the shared model and the educational deliverables. The scientific challenge to the team is to produce an engineering model that integrates semantic descriptions of robotic components, behavioral and simulation software, software for snake robot control and navigation, as well as the tools needed to perform analysis, component surrogation and mission assessment. The educational challenge is to develop course materials that are both multi-disciplinary and scientifically rich. The goal is to educate students so they can span and integrate disciplines: semantics, engineering modeling, and computational tools. This project will deeply connect different sub-fields of engineering and computer science, enabling the new inter-disciplinary trained engineers to rapidly create new snake-inspired robot designs. BROADER IMPACTS: This project contributes to the transformation of engineering into an "informatics" discipline and broadens the interface between computer science and engineering. The CI-Team aims to establish the content of an "Engineering Informatics" curriculum around the snake robot domain and use it as a basis for integrating fundamental concepts from engineering and computer science. Further, the technical results contained in the engineering model will support two areas of major national need. First, it advances the state of the art in snake-inspired robotic systems and produces a repository for use by educators and researchers. Second, through active collaboration with partners at NIST and DOE, the team will transition concepts into ongoing standards efforts sponsored by ISO and the W3C. Finally, the development of the Engineering Informatics discipline will contribute to a cyberinfrastructure-savvy workforce and by integrating the results of this demonstration project with on-going efforts for broadened participation will also create a diverse cyberinfrastructure workforce and user community.