MRI: Acquisition of Instruments for the Research of Applying Ultra Wide Band Based Wireless Networks to Vehicles for Communications and Controls

目标：在本项目中，我们要求仪器建立一个UWB实验室，以支持车载无线网络和无线网络控制系统（无线NCS）的研究。相关的主题包括车载UWB信道测量和建模，使用多频带正交频分复用（OFDM）的最佳高速UWB数据传输方案，在各种车辆设置和干扰下使用跳时UWB无线电的鲁棒实时控制消息传递方法，有效的媒体访问控制协议，以及不可靠数据传输链路下的控制系统性能分析与设计。本课题旨在充分利用智能机制，通过感知，分析，以及预测信道条件和网络配置，从而自适应地调整网络配置和修改方案以优化系统目标。该项目的成果将推动最先进的无线通信、网络和控制系统的发展，所应用的机制非常适用于科学和工程的各个领域。更广泛的影响：车载无线通信系统的应用将改善交通环境，提高人们的生活质量和工作效率。无线网络控制系统的采用极大地促进了各种现代控制系统实现突破性的功能，并通过消除布线限制来实现高度的可扩展性和灵活性。密歇根大学迪尔伯恩位于美国汽车工业的中心地带。车载无线网络和无线网络控制系统的采用将对全球汽车制造商之间的竞争产生重大而长期的影响。

Objective: In this project, we requested instrumentation to setup a UWB laboratory to support the research of intra-vehicle wireless networks and wireless networked control system (wireless NCS). Related topics include in-vehicle UWB channel measurement and modeling, an optimal high-speed UWB data transmission scheme using multiple band orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), a robust real-time control message delivery method using time-hopping UWB radio under various vehicle setting and interferences, an effective media access control protocol, and control system performance analysis and design under unreliable data transmission links.Intellectual Merit: The project intends to fully utilize an intelligent mechanism in the design of wireless NCS by sensing, analyzing, and predicting channel conditions and network configuration consequently adaptively adjusting network configurations and modifying schemes to optimize system objectives. The outcomes of this project will advance the state-of-the-art wireless communications, networks and control systems and the mechanisms applied are extremely applicable to various fields of science and engineering. Broader Impact: The application of intra-vehicle wireless communications systems will enhance the transportation environments, the quality of life and the efficiency of work. The adoption of wireless NCS considerably facilitates a wide range of modern control systems to achieve ground-breaking functions and attain high scalability and flexibility by eliminating the wiring limit. The University of Michigan, Dearborn is located in the heartland of the American automotive industry. The adoption of intra-vehicle wireless networks and wireless NCS will have significant and long term impacts on the competition between automobile manufacturers worldwide.