CPS: Medium: Reconfigurable Aerial Power-Efficient Interconnected Imaging and Detection (RAPID) Cyber-Physical System

CPS：中：可重构空中高效互连成像和检测（RAPID）网络物理系统

• 批准号: 2233783
• 负责人: Hamidreza Aghasi
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2233783&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CPS; Medium; Reconfigurable; Aerial; Power

A growing number of natural or man-made detrimental incidents occur every day, which mandate precise monitoring, control/management, and prevention. Otherwise, they can rapidly evolve to turn into unpredictable events with significant losses such as delays of automotive traffics jams, catastrophic devastation assuming lives of innocent citizens as in man-made incidents or explosions, financial and industrial losses as in the case of malfunction or defects in manufacturing plants, and loss of natural resources as in the case of droughts, wildfires, and floods. First responders are at the frontline of counteractions against these incidents with their safety being at a major risk, while the effectiveness and efficiency of their actions may also need improvement for complete closure of the event or prevention of its growth. To further assist the first responders and disallowing the damage due to an incident, this research proposes a cooperative network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are equipped with novel sensing and imaging technologies and can obtain critical information for the safe and more successful operation of first responders by sharing information with them in a short span of time. The UAVs can also assist the first responders by obtaining information from environments that are hard to access such as non-urban areas and environments with extreme conditions e.g., high temperature/elevation. The proposed research aims to investigate and realize a re-configurable, aerial, power-efficient, interconnected imaging, and detection (RAPID) CPS that can adaptively tune its configuration and performance (e.g., three-dimensional position of agents, spatial sensing resolution) with respect to the span of impacted area, feature size, and necessary resolution to monitor various incidents. To achieve these goals, three interrelated research thrusts with the following intellectual merits are pursued: (1) design and optimization of coordinated mobility strategies and control for the proposed CPS so as to maintain high-resolution sensing and connectivity of the drones; (2) design of an aerial communication network to realize cooperative sensing/communication and develop power-optimized rate-controllable wireless system per each UAV to exchange acquired image data between cyber and physical agents and track the position of UAVs in the network; and (3) design of a dual-mode sensing fusion embedded within a flying sensor agent comprising a novel low-power, high-resolution mm-wave imaging module to detect mobile/hidden objects and structural defects, and an infra-red (IR) thermal camera to detect high-temperature radiations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

每天都会发生越来越多的自然或人为有害事件，这要求精确监控，控制/管理和预防。否则，它们可以迅速发展成为不可预测的事件，并造成了巨大损失，例如汽车贩运危机的延迟，灾难性的灾难，假设无辜公民的生活，如人为的事件或爆炸，金融和工业损失，以及在制造工厂中的造成的植物和洪水境内的损失，以及野外的损失。第一响应者是针对这些事件的前线的前线，其安全性处于重大风险，而行动的有效性和效率也可能需要改进，以完全关闭事件或预防其增长。为了进一步协助第一响应者并不承担因事件而造成的损害，本研究提出了一个合作的无人机（UAV）网络，该网络配备了新型的感应和成像技术，并可以通过在短时间内与他们共享信息来获得关键信息，以实现最成功，更成功的第一响应者的操作。无人机还可以通过从难以访问的环境中获取诸如非城市地区和具有极端条件的环境（例如高温/高程）的环境中的信息来为急救人员提供帮助。拟议的研究旨在调查并实现可重新配置，空中，功率，相互联系的成像和检测（快速）CPS，可以适应其配置和性能（例如，试剂的三维位置，空间传感分辨率）与受影响区域的尺寸，功能尺寸和必要的分辨率相关。为了实现这些目标，提出了三个相互关联的研究推力，具有以下智力优点：（1）设计和优化所提出的CPS的协调移动策略和控制权，以维持无人机的高分辨率感知和连通性； （2）设计航空通信网络，以实现每个无人机的合作感测/通信，并开发可控制的速率控制的无线系统，以在网络和物理代理之间交换所获得的图像数据并跟踪无人机在网络中的位置； （3）设计嵌入在飞行传感器中的双模式感应融合融合的设计，该融合包括一个新型的低功率，高分辨率的MM​​波像成像模块，以检测移动/隐藏物体和结构性缺陷，以及Infra-Red（IR）热相机，以检测高速启动，以反映NSF的启发。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

A 49-63 GHz Phase-locked FMCW Radar Transceiver for High Resolution Applications

适用于高分辨率应用的 49-63 GHz 锁相 FMCW 雷达收发器

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference
• 作者: Liu, Xuyang;Maktoomi, Md Hedayatullah;Alesheikh, Mahdi;Heydari, Payam;Aghasi, Hamidreza
• 通讯作者: Aghasi, Hamidreza