CAREER: Passive Wireless Sensor Networks for Bio-inspired Sensor Skins

ARRA声明：这份职业建议书将使用2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供的资金授予，并符合2009年3月20日题为《确保负责任地使用复苏法案资金》的白宫备忘录第2节规定的要求。作为认知项目官员，我还确认，该提案不支持《复苏法案》A分部第1604节所述的项目。这个职业项目是为了研究用于工程传感器皮肤的无源无线传感器的多路复用和组网。提出的多学科研究的重点是解决传感器皮肤的三大挑战，即电气布线、串行采样和信息过载。本项目致力于为大规模传感器网络的系统设计和有效询问建立一种方法论。为人造系统配备检测大面积微小异常的智能，可以从根本上改变它们的功能和与环境的相互作用。建议的传感器皮肤将使SHM范式从裂缝检测过渡到损伤预测，从而使我们能够更有效地利用我们的国家资源和基础设施。如果成功，这将改变两个关键研究领域的传感器技术，即工程传感器皮肤和结构健康监测。无源无线传感器皮肤的成功示范将对机电一体化、机器人、生物/医学研究和可穿戴医疗等广泛研究领域产生深远影响。拟议的研究将被整合到一个教育计划中，将教育范式从以授课为基础的单一学科教学转变为以学生为中心的多学科学习。通过研究生和少数民族本科生的参与，拓宽学习前景。将举办工作坊，鼓励来访的K-12学生继续接受高等工程教育。

ARRA statement: This CAREER proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and meets the requirements established in Section 2 of the White House Memorandum entitled, Ensuring Responsible Spending of Recovery Act Funds, dated March 20, 2009. I also affirm, as the cognizant Program Officer, that the proposal does not support projects described in Section 1604 of Division A of the Recovery Act. This CAREER project is formulated to study the multiplexing and networking of passive wireless sensors for engineered sensor skins. The proposed multi-disciplinary research is focused to resolve three major challenges of sensor skins, i.e. electrical wiring, serial sampling, and information overloading. This project strives to establish a methodology for the systematic design and effective interrogation of large scale sensor networks. Equipping man-made systems with the intelligence of detecting small irregularities over a large area could fundamentally change how they function and interact with the environment. The proposed sensor skin will enable the transition of SHM paradigm from crack detection to damage prognosis, allowing more efficient use of our national resources and infrastructures. If successful, this will transform the sensor technologies in two critical research fields, namely engineered sensor skins and structural health monitoring Successful demonstration of passive wireless sensor skins will have profound impacts on broad research areas such as mechatronics, robotics, bio/medical research, and wearable healthcare, etc. The proposed research will be integrated into an educational program that shifts the education paradigm from lecture-based single-discipline teaching to student-centric multidisciplinary learning. Learning prospective will be broadened by involving graduate students and undergraduate minority students. Workshops will be offered to inspire visiting K-12 students to pursue higher education in engineering.