I-Corps: iSpace Technology for Novel Traffic Light Managements

I-Corps：用于新型交通灯管理的 iSpace 技术

• 批准号: 1338371
• 负责人: Mo-Yuen Chow
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-15 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1338371&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; iSpace; Technology; Novel; Traffic

This I-Corps project proposes to further develop a technology for traffic signal management in transportation systems. This technology has been evolving through various research projects since 2002. The proposed technology provides a solution to meet demands for efficiency, scalability, security and robustness in the control and management of large-scale time-sensitive industrial applications. It has been founded on cooperative distributed control technologies and is capable of addressing the network-in-the-loop challenges, such as time delay, packet loss and bandwidth allocation, efficiently. It can effectively integrate distributed sensors, distributed actuators, distributed controllers, and communication networks to make intelligent decisions over a physically and/or virtually connected space. This space can be as small as a room or a building, or can be as big as a community, or even a city. Compared to the centralized counterpart, the proposed technology does not rely on a specialized control center but a group of distributed smart control modules which make intelligent decisions by exchanging information with local neighbors. It scales well as the network grows with plug-and-play capabilities, exhibits resilience to the communication delays and robustness to node and link failures.This technology is a platform technology that meets the critical needs of many industrial applications, such as: 1) traffic signal management in intelligent transportation systems, 2) energy management in building management systems, 3) electric vehicle charging strategies in a municipal parking deck or a community environment, 4) mobile devices power management in an aggregate level. Further development of this technology will impact all of these areas and facilitate the transition trend from centralized control to distributed control, which may bring about significant advances in the corresponding hardware and software development for industrial control systems.

该I-Corps项目建议进一步开发运输系统中的交通信号管理技术。自2002年以来，这项技术一直通过各种研究项目发展。拟议的技术为满足大型时间敏感工业应用的控制和管理方面的效率，可伸缩性，安全性和鲁棒性提供了解决方案。它已建立在合作分布式控制技术上，并能够有效地应对网络中的挑战，例如时间延迟，数据包丢失和带宽分配。它可以有效地集成分布式传感器，分布式执行器，分布式控制器和通信网络，以在物理和/或虚拟连接的空间上做出智能决策。这个空间可以像房间或建筑物一样小，也可以像社区甚至城市一样大。与集中式同行相比，所提出的技术不依赖专门的控制中心，而是一组分布式的智能控制模块，这些模块通过与当地邻居交换信息来做出明智的决策。随着网络的增长，它可以按插件的功能增长，表现出对通信延迟和对节点和链接失败的稳健性的韧性。该技术是一种满足许多工业应用的关键需求的平台技术，例如：1）智能运输系统中的交通信号管理，2）建筑管理系统中的能源管理，3）市政停车甲板或社区环境中的电动汽车充电策略，4）移动设备电力管理总级别。该技术的进一步发展将影响所有这些领域，并促进从集中控制到分布式控制的过渡趋势，这可能在工业控制系统的相应硬件和软件开发方面取得了重大进展。