{"id":13099,"date":"2013-10-25T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2022-01-24T21:53:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T02:53:05","slug":"sensor-research-wins-1m-nsf-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/sensor-research-wins-1m-nsf-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensor Research Wins $1M NSF Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ENG researchers’ intelligent information management methods will aid in archaeological field work. Archaeological surveys, such as the site in western Turkey shown here, can be scanned by a team of sensor-carrying UAVs (top) to create topographical maps (center) and determine features of potential interest for later excavation. Potential features of interest include Tumuli (bottom), or burial mounds, which have a higher likelihood of containing archaeological artifacts than surrounding areas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Enhancing the functionality of cyber-physical systems\u2014those that integrate physical processes with networked computing\u2014could significantly improve our quality of life, from reducing car collisions to upgrading robotic surgeries to mounting more effective search and rescue missions.<\/p>\n

Recognizing Boston University as a key contributor to this effort, the National Science Foundation has awarded Professors\u00a0Venkatesh Saligrama<\/a> <\/strong>(ECE, SE) and David Casta\u00f1\u00f3n<\/a> <\/strong>(ECE, SE), and Assistant Professor Mac Schwager<\/a> (ME, SE), nearly $1 million for their project, \u201cCPS: Synergy: Data Driven Intelligent Controlled Sensing for Cyber Physical Systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drawing on earlier work by Saligrama and Casta\u00f1\u00f3n investigating machine learning under cost and budget constraints, the researchers will focus on improving sensors that collect data in transportation, security and manufacturing applications. A key challenge in such applications is to choose the most effective physical sensors from the vast amount available and develop systems that can efficiently process large quantities of collected data.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of these systems are energy hungry,\u201d Saligrama explained. \u201cThe goal is to use such sensors only when they are needed by using feedback control of the sensing actions to obtain the best information\u00a0possible given energy budget constraints.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casta\u00f1\u00f3n, who has developed some of the leading theories used in controlled sensing studies, sees the project as \u201can opportunity to extend that theory to big data environments with high-dimensional measurements.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team plans to validate its techniques through archaeological surveying, working with Associate Professor Chris Roosevelt<\/a> (Archaeology). Determining where to deploy the sensors on a smaller scale\u2014for example, finding where best to dig\u2014could lead to far-reaching solutions for deep-sea exploration, firefighting and traffic monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enhancing the functionality of cyber-physical systems\u2014those that integrate physical processes with networked computing\u2014could significantly improve our quality of life, from reducing car collisions to upgrading robotic surgeries to mounting more effective search and rescue missions. Recognizing Boston University as a key contributor to this effort, the National Science Foundation has awarded Professors\u00a0Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35504,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions\/35504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}