Novel Sensing Networks for Intelligent Monitoring (Newton)

该提案为一项为期四年的研究计划寻求资金，以开发一种自主的智能系统，以获得状态/结构健康智能监测的革命性解决方案，具体应用于铁路状态监测和核应用的现役无损评估（NDE）。该项目旨在实现以下重要目标：低成本和低功耗传感器网络、传感器探索、软件架构、自主数据融合和智能系统管理、基于射频识别（RFID）的被动传感网络的频谱高效和可靠通信、非线性特征提取和基于模型的融合、压缩感知、基于云的计算和决策。这项研究将扩展我们在几个互补领域的知识：低成本传感器技术、用于无损检测和结构健康监测的无线传感器网络（WSN）、特征提取和融合、健壮的通信和软件架构。这项工作将由纽卡斯尔大学、谢菲尔德大学和约克大学的跨学科研究团队与工业战略合作伙伴共同承担。

This proposal seeks funding for a four-year research programme to develop an autonomous, intelligent system to obtain a revolutionary solution for condition/structural health intelligent monitoring, with specific applications in condition monitoring of railways and in-service Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) for nuclear applications. This project addresses important goals: low cost and low power consumption sensor networks, sensor exploration, software architectures, autonomous data fusion and intelligent system management, spectrally efficient and reliable communications with novel approaches of radio frequency identification (RFID) based passive sensing networks, non-linear feature extraction and model based fusion, compressed sensing, cloud-based computing and decision making. The research will extend our knowledge in several complementary areas: low cost sensor technologies, wireless sensor network (WSN) for NDE and structural health monitoring (SHM), feature extraction and fusion, robust communication, and software architectures. The work will be undertaken jointly by cross-disciplinary research teams from Newcastle, Sheffield and York Universities, in collaboration with industrial strategic partners.