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，这需要精确的监测、控制/管理和预防。否则，它们可能会迅速演变成不可预测的事件，造成重大损失，例如汽车交通拥堵延误、人为事件或爆炸造成无辜公民生命受损的灾难性破坏、故障或缺陷造成的财务和工业损失制造工厂的损失，以及干旱、野火和洪水等自然资源的损失。急救人员处于应对这些事件的最前线，他们的安全面临重大风险，而他们行动的有效性和效率也可能需要改进，以完全结束事件或防止其发展。为了进一步协助急救人员并防止事故造成损害，本研究提出了一种无人机合作网络，该网络配备了新颖的传感和成像技术，可以获取关键信息，以确保安全和更成功的操作通过在短时间内与急救人员分享信息。无人机还可以通过从难以到达的环境（例如非城市地区和极端条件（例如高温/海拔）的环境）获取信息来协助急救人员。拟议的研究旨在研究和实现可重新配置、空中、高能效、互连成像和检测（RAPID）CPS，该 CPS 可以自适应地调整其配置和性能（例如，代理的三维位置、空间传感分辨率）涉及受影响区域的范围、特征尺寸以及监控各种事件所需的分辨率。为了实现这些目标，需要进行三个相互关联的研究，具有以下智力优势：（1）设计和优化所提出的CPS的协调移动策略和控制，以保持无人机的高分辨率传感和连接性； （2）设计空中通信网络，以实现协作感知/通信，并为每架无人机开发功率优化的速率可控无线系统，以在网络和物理代理之间交换获取的图像数据，并跟踪网络中无人机的位置； (3) 嵌入飞行传感器代理中的双模式传感融合设计，包括新型低功耗、高分辨率毫米波成像模块，用于检测移动/隐藏物体和结构缺陷，以及红外（IR） ）热像仪来检测高温辐射。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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: 2023-10
• 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