A Design Proposal: The Center for Cyber Sensors Networks for Human and Environmental Applications

该项目名为"设计提案：人类和环境应用网络传感器网络中心“，旨在提高中央州立大学（CSU）的研究能力，目标是在两年内建立一个重点研究中心。CSU是一所历史上主要是本科的黑人大学，95%的学生是非洲裔美国人。这项工作将加强大学教师的研究资格以及科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）部门的资源和设施，从而为大学成为一个在研究方面更具竞争力的机构奠定基础。CSU的最终目标是开发研究基础设施，建立网络传感器网络领域的研究中心。为了建立这样一个中心，该机构必须有一个既定的研究重点与综合教育举措;展示研究基础设施改善的长期计划;并制定一个全面的计划，以实现和保持国家竞争力在一个确定的研究领域。这项工作产生的成果将使中央支助股能够在今后两年内完成以下工作：提高机构的研究能力，提高教师的研究能力，改善研究基础设施，本项目将为传感器网络开发一个可共享的自优化、协同控制的网络传感器网络平台，面向应用，如对人类行为的持续监视和对环境现象的跟踪。作为一个多学科的研究合作，该项目涉及图像/视频处理，代数技术，统计物理，数据融合，协同控制和优化。 教育活动是通过网络传感器网络的跨学科本科研讨会课程整合。该课程将提高对环境中国家问题的认识，以及对人类表现的当前研究，吸引学生研究和继续学习STEM。这项研究将通过让少数民族学生参与本科研究，加强该机构在招募和留住少数民族学生方面的努力。

The project entitled - A Design Proposal: The Center for Cyber Sensors Networks for Human and Environmental Applications - aims to increase the research capacity of Central State University (CSU) with the goal of developing a focused research center in two years. CSU is a mostly undergraduate Historically Black University where 95% of the students are African American. The work will strengthen the research credentials of the university's faculty as well as the resources and facilities of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments, thereby creating the foundation for the university to become an institution more competitive in research. The ultimate goal is for CSU to develop the research infrastructure to establish a research center in the area of cyber sensor networks. In order to establish such a center, the institution must have an established research focus with integrated educational initiatives; demonstrate a long-term plan for research infrastructure improvement; and develop a comprehensive plan to achieve and maintain national competitiveness in a defined research area. The outcomes produced by this work will position CSU to accomplish the following over the next two years: increase the institution's research capabilities, increase faculty research capacity, improve the research infrastructure, and increase the research capabilities of undergraduate students.The project will develop a sharable self-optimizing and cooperative control cyber sensor network platform for sensor-oriented applications such as persistent surveillance on human behavior and the tracking of environmental phenomena. As a multidisciplinary research collaboration, the project involves image/video processing, algebraic techniques, statistical physics, data fusion, cooperative control, and optimization. The educational activities are integrated through an interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar course in cyber sensors networks. The course will increase awareness of national problems in the environment, as well as current studies in human performance, attracting students to research and continued study in STEM. The research will enhance the institution's efforts in recruiting and retaining minority students by engaging them in undergraduate research.