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Research Archive: 2005: Technology
CENS is pursuing fundamental science and engineering research needed to create scalable, robust, adaptive, sensor/actuator networks including both Embedded Networked Sensing (ENS) technology research and ENS applications research. ENS-facilitated education and outreach activities are intertwined with the technology and application development.
Critical "systems" research is needed to exploit currently available component technology (sensors, low power devices, RF).
- Introduce adaptive Self-Organization to achieve reliable, long-lived, operation in dynamic, resource-limited, harsh environments.
- Apply Collaborative multi-modal processing and active database techniques.
- Develop primitives for programming aggregates to create autonomous capabilities and in network event detection across large numbers of nodes.
- Implement sensor coordinated actuation to enable truly self-configuring and reconfiguring systems by allowing for adaptation in physical space.
RESEARCH AREA:
Systems
: Network Autonomy
Associated Projects
- Disruption Tolerant Networking
- Enabling Control Applications over Ad-Hoc Sensor Actuator Networks
- Energy Scavenging
- High Integrity Sensor Nets
- Link Characterization
- Localization
- MAC Protocol Research
- Metric-based Routing
- Mobility Modeling
- Scalable, High Performance Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Scalable Structured Routing
- Sensor Calibration
- Sensor Network Management
- Spatial Aggregation
- Timing Synchronization
RESEARCH AREA:
Systems
: Programming and Storage
Associated Projects
- Distributed Data Structures
- Over the Air Programming
- Programming Framework
- Debugging
- Macroprogramming Sensor Networks Using Kairos Framework
RESEARCH AREA:
Systems:
Tools, Platforms, and Testbeds
Associated Projects
- Adhoc Wireless Seismic Array
- EmStar: Development Tools for CENS-Class Systems
- Habitat Monitoring Testbed
- Low Power Imaging Network (CameraNet)
- Wireless Seismic and Structural Response Monitoring
RESEARCH AREA:
Actuation
Associated Projects:
- Adaptive Sampling:
- Sensing:
- Datamule
- Robogaming
- Network Deployment of Robots
- Robot Navigation, Task Allocation using a Sensor Network
- Testbeds
- Vision-Based Navigation
RESEARCH AREA:
NIMS
Networked Infomechanical Systems
Associated Projects
- Fidelity Driven Sampling
- Field Results
- NIMS Coordinated Mobility
- LEAP: Low Power Energy Aware Processor Embedded Networked Sensor System
- NIMS Sensing Uncertainty
- NIMS Software Architecture for Adaptive Sampling and Task Allocation
- NIMS System Architecture
- NIMS Testbeds
RESEARCH AREA:
Sensor Information
Processing
Associated Projects
- Adaptive Communication in Acoustic Sensor Arrays
- Cooperative Communications
- Datamule
- Entropy-based Sensor Selection for Localization
- Information Theoretic Limits in Sensor Networks
- Theory and Implementation of Beamforming on a Distributed Sensor Network
- Wireless Time-Synchronized COTS Sensor Platform: Applications to Beamforming
RESEARCH AREA:
Micro/Nano
Sensor Technology
Associated Projects
- Micromachined Amperometric Nitrate Sensor
- Micromachined Liquid Chromatography Systems
- Micromachined Potentiometric Nitrate Sensor
- Surface-Plasmon-Resonance Systems
RESEARCH AREA:
Ethical,
Legal, & Social Implications
Research Archive: 2005: Applications
Research is focused on four experimental application drivers: habitat monitoring for bio-complexity studies, spatially-dense seismic sensing and structure response, monitoring and modeling contaminant flows, and detection and identification of marine microorganisms. To support this scope, CENS continues to combine the expertise of faculty from diverse engineering disciplines with the expertise of biological, environmental and earth scientists. During the lifetime of the Center, we will pursue additional opportunities for applying the technology to other natural and engineered systems.
RESEARCH AREA:
Terrestrial
Ecology Observing Systems: Habitat sensing seeks
to observe the dynamics of biological complexity: environmental, organismal,
and cultural conditions, and the interactions between them in natural and managed
landscapes.
Associated Projects
- Microclimate, Acoustic, and Video Enabled Sensor Networks
- Adaptive Communication in Acoustic Sensor Arrays
- Embedded network sensing within soils: The Effect of Rocks on Temperature, Moisture, and Nutrient Gradients in Arid Soils
- AMARSS - Networked Minirhizotron Planning and Initial Deployment
- Agricultural and Tropical Ecosystem Test Bed - Application of Embedded Networked Sensing Technology on Moorea, French Polynesia
- Research Infrastructure
- Future Projects and Planning Activities
RESEARCH AREA:
Seismic
Monitoring and Structural Response: Seismic sensing and structure
response will bring high spatial resolution to seismic sensing and to correlate
monitored activity with structural response.
Associated Projects
- Broadband Seismic Network, Mexico Experiment (MASE)
- CENS Data Communication Controller and Network Timing
- Factor Real Time Seismic Monitoring
- Four Seasons Experiment and Structural Modeling
- Wireless Seismic and Structural Response Monitoring
RESEARCH AREA:
Contaminant
Assessment and Management: Contaminant transport monitoring
will model and predict contaminant flow and transport in the subsurface
environment through dense in situ observation.
Associated Projects
- Contaminant Source Assessment
- Soil Pylon Sensor Array Design and Validation
- Multiscale Soil Sensor Network Deployment
RESEARCH AREA:
Aquatic
Microbial Observing Systems: Monitoring of marine microorganisms
studies the conditions under which specific populations of marine microorganisms
develop in nature.
Associated Projects
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