Turning the Civil and Mechanical Infrastructures into a "Smart" Structures and Systems through the Adoption of Bio-inspired Sensing and Actuation Technologies

本次研讨会的目标是制定路线图，规划以美台团队和中心为基础的全面双边研究和实施计划，通过采用生物启发的传感和驱动技术，实现基于智能结构和系统的土木工程和机械基础设施的重大进步。台湾地处世界地震高度活跃地区，破坏性地震几乎每十年发生一次，沿着西北太平洋热带气旋的主要路径几乎每年都会发生。由于国家台湾委员会(NSC)的广泛投资，台湾今天在减灾领域是公认的领导者。在这次研讨会上，我们提出，在多种减轻自然灾害的方法方面仍有可能有重大改进，并且可以通过采用生物启发的传感和致动概念等变革性技术来实现。来自学术界、政府和产业界的双边科学家团体将被邀请为综合研究前沿做出贡献并开发一个框架，以重振美台在服务于紧迫社会需求的新兴研究方面的合作。

The objective of this workshop is to develop a road map for planning a comprehensive bilateral US-Taiwan team- and center-based research and implementation plan for realizing significant advances in civil and mechanical infrastructure based on ?smart structures and systems through the adaptation of bio-inspired sensing and actuation technologies?. Taiwan is situated in a highly seismically active region of the world with devastating earthquakes occurring almost every decade and along the primary path of Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclones occurring almost yearly. Because of the extensive investment by the National Taiwan Council (NSC), Taiwan today is a recognized leader in the hazard mitigation field. In this workshop we proposed that significant improvements in multiple nature hazard mitigation approaches are still possible and can be achieved through the adoption of transformative technologies such as bio-inspired sensing and actuation concepts. Bilateral groups of scientists from academia, government, and industry will be invited to contribute and to develop a framework for an integrated research frontier that is envisioned to revitalize US-Taiwan collaboration on emerging research serving pressing societal needs.