TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire TinyOS applications
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Telos: enabling ultra-low power wireless research
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Improving wireless simulation through noise modeling
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Health monitoring of civil infrastructures using wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
A component-based architecture for power-efficient media access control in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
A Holistic Approach to Decentralized Structural Damage Localization Using Wireless Sensor Networks
RTSS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Real-Time Systems Symposium
Monitoring heritage buildings with wireless sensor networks: The Torre Aquila deployment
IPSN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
An empirical study of low-power wireless
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Cyber-physical codesign of distributed structural health monitoring with wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
High quality sensor placement for SHM systems: refocusing on application demands
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Real-Time Scheduling for WirelessHART Networks
RTSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
Dynamic Conflict-Free Transmission Scheduling for Sensor Network Queries
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
NCSWT: an integrated modeling and simulation tool for networked control systems
Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
Closing the loop: a simple distributed method for control over wireless networks
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
ICCPS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM Third International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
Distributed Sensing for High Quality Structural Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
RTSS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 33rd Real-Time Systems Symposium
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Wireless Structural Control (WSC) systems can play a crucial role in protecting civil infrastructure in the event of earthquakes and other natural disasters. Such systems represent an exemplary class of cyber-physical systems that perform close-loop control using wireless sensor networks. Existing WSC research usually employs wireless sensors installed on small lab structures, which cannot capture realistic delays and data loss in wireless sensor networks deployed on large civil structures. The lack of realistic tools that capture both the cyber (wireless) and physical (structural) aspects of WSC systems has been a hurdle for cyber-physical systems research for civil infrastructure. This advances the state of the art through the following contributions. First, we developed the Wireless Cyber-Physical Simulator (WCPS), an integrated environment that combines realistic simulations of both wireless sensor networks and structures. WCPS integrates Simulink and TOSSIM, a state-of-the-art sensor network simulator featuring a realistic wireless model seeded by signal traces. Second, we performed two realistic case studies each combining a structural model with wireless traces collected from real-world environments. The building study combines a benchmark building model and wireless traces collected from a multi-story building. The bridge study combines the structural model of the Cape Girardeau bridge over the Mississippi River and wireless traces collected from a similar bridge (the Jindo Bridge) in South Korea. These case studies shed light on the challenges of WSC and the limitations of a traditional structural control approach under realistic wireless conditions. Finally, we proposed a cyber-physical co-design approach to WSC that integrates a novel holistic scheduling scheme (for sensing, communication and control) and an Optimal Time Delay Controller (OTDC) that substantially improves structural control performance.