CI-TEAM: Exploiting Cyber-Infrastructure for Creation and Use of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models

CI-TEAM：利用网络基础设施创建和使用多学科工程模型

• 批准号: 0537370
• 负责人: William Regli
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0537370&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Exploiting; Cyber; Infrastructure

This CI-Team demonstration will create a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, engineering model to support in-silico prototyping of snake-inspired robotic systems. Snake-inspired robots have many potential applications, including those in medicine, civil engineering, search and rescue, and homeland security. This model will be created during a coordinated set of multi-disciplinary classes developed by the PIs and concurrently taught across the partner institutions and accessible via distance learning systems. The CI-Team plans an ambitious use of cyber-collaboration and education technologies to prototype a set of core courses in a curriculum for "Engineering Informatics" that spans our institutions and unites computer and information sciences with traditional engineering domains.The team is a highly inter-disciplinary group from four universities consisting of computer scientists and engineers with the complimentary expertise needed to create both the shared model and the educational deliverables. The scientific challenge to the team is to produce an engineering model that integrates semantic descriptions of robotic components, behavioral and simulation software, software for snake robot control and navigation, as well as the tools needed to perform analysis, component surrogation and mission assessment. The educational challenge is to develop course materials that are both multi-disciplinary and scientifically rich. The goal is to educate students so they can span and integrate disciplines: semantics, engineering modeling, and computational tools. This project will deeply connect different sub-fields of engineering and computer science, enabling the new inter-disciplinary trained engineers to rapidly create new snake-inspired robot designs. BROADER IMPACTS: This project contributes to the transformation of engineering into an "informatics" discipline and broadens the interface between computer science and engineering. The CI-Team aims to establish the content of an "Engineering Informatics" curriculum around the snake robot domain and use it as a basis for integrating fundamental concepts from engineering and computer science. Further, the technical results contained in the engineering model will support two areas of major national need. First, it advances the state of the art in snake-inspired robotic systems and produces a repository for use by educators and researchers. Second, through active collaboration with partners at NIST and DOE, the team will transition concepts into ongoing standards efforts sponsored by ISO and the W3C. Finally, the development of the Engineering Informatics discipline will contribute to a cyberinfrastructure-savvy workforce and by integrating the results of this demonstration project with on-going efforts for broadened participation will also create a diverse cyberinfrastructure workforce and user community.

这次CI团队的演示将创建一个全面的，多学科的工程模型，以支持蛇启发的机器人系统的核中原型制作。 受蛇为灵感的机器人有许多潜在的应用，包括医学，土木工程，搜救和国土安全部。 该模型将在PIS开发的一组协调的多学科类别中创建，并在合作伙伴机构中同时教授，并可以通过远程学习系统访问。 CI团队计划雄心勃勃地使用网络合作和教育技术，以在“工程信息学”课程中制作一组核心课程，该课程涵盖了我们的机构，并将计算机和信息科学与传统工程领域团结在一起。来自四所大学的跨学科小组由计算机科学家和工程师组成，具有创建共享模型和教育交付成果所需的免费专业知识。 团队的科学挑战是生产一种工程模型，该模型整合了机器人组件，行为和仿真软件的语义描述，用于蛇机器人控制和导航的软件，以及执行分析，组件替代和任务评估所需的工具。 教育挑战是开发既有多学科又科学富裕的课程材料。 目的是教育学生，以便他们可以跨越并整合学科：语义，工程建模和计算工具。 该项目将深入连接工程和计算机科学的不同子场，使新的跨学科训练的工程师能够快速创建新的蛇启发的机器人设计。更广泛的影响：该项目有助于将工程学转变为“信息学”学科，并扩大计算机科学与工程之间的界面。 CI团队旨在在蛇机器人域周围建立“工程信息学”课程的内容，并将其用作整合工程和计算机科学的基本概念的基础。 此外，工程模型中包含的技术结果将支持两个主要国家需求的领域。 首先，它在受蛇启发的机器人系统中提高了艺术状态，并生产了一个供教育者和研究人员使用的存储库。 其次，通过与NIST和DOE的合作伙伴的积极合作，团队将转变为ISO和W3C赞助的持续标准工作。最后，工程信息学纪律的发展将有助于网络基础设施精通劳动力，并通过将该示范项目的结果与不断扩大参与的努力相结合，还将创造一个多样化的Cyber​​infrastructure劳动力和用户社区。