Bio-Informed Framework Enabling Multimetric Infrastructure Monitoring

这项美韩日研究工作的目标是为无线智能传感器网络（WSSN）开发一个变革性的框架，以监测关键的民用基础设施，该框架建立在与国际同行进行大量现有合作的基础上。 为了实现项目目标，定义了四项主要任务：1）开发多指标和多尺度传感器以及由生物有机体的感官感知提供信息的相关算法; 2）实现面向服务的架构，这将产生模块化、易于维护的应用程序，可以适应监测不同类型的结构，并管理多指标传感所需的复杂性; 3）开发一个用户驱动的WSSN宏观编程环境，以促进关键民用基础设施的结构健康监测的实施;和4）原型和测试WSSN通过在实验室和全尺寸测试台上实施开发的软件。 这种方法的好处包括大大提高了软件开发过程的可伸缩性，使多个动态的，上下文感知的应用程序在共享环境中并发运行，并通过跨应用程序的全局共享资源管理提高效率。 这项研究的成功完成将加速保护我们各自国家基础设施的创新战略的实际实施。

The goal of this US-Korea-Japan research effort is to develop a transformative framework for Wireless Smart Sensor Networks (WSSN) to monitor critical civil infrastructure that builds upon a foundation of substantial existing collaboration with our international counterparts. To achieve the project goal, four principal tasks are defined: 1) Develop multi-metric and multi-scale sensors and associated algorithms that are informed by the sensory perception of biological organisms; 2) Implement a service-oriented architecture that will result in modular, easy to maintain applications that can be adapted for monitoring different types of structures and will manage the complexity demanded by multi-metric sensing; 3) Develop a user-driven WSSN macro-programming environment to facilitate the implementation of structural health monitoring for critical civil infrastructure; and 4) Prototype and test the WSSN by implementing the developed software in both laboratory and full-scale test beds. The benefits of this approach include greatly improving the scalability of the software development process, enabling multiple dynamic, context-aware applications to run concurrently in a shared environment, and increasing efficiency through global shared resource management across applications. Successful completion of this research will accelerate the practical implementation of innovative strategies for protecting our respective nations infrastructure.