Research

Feedback Control with Wireless Sensing Devices

Our pioneering research in decentralized structural control is not limited to analytical and numerical studies.  With multi-disciplinary expertise in civil and electrical engineering, we push the technology frontier by physically realizing decentralized structural control systems through wireless sensing and embedded computing.  Wireless sensing and control units are developed as the building blocks of a decentralized structural control system.  Each unit, besides collecting and communicating sensor data, can make real-time optimal control decisions and command control devices.

In order to allow multiple decentralized controllers to simultaneously obtain real-time wireless sensor data, multiple information subnets that operate on different wireless channels are successfully implemented.  Incorporating the decentralized control algorithms proposed by us, large-scale shake table experiments are conducted to validate the system performance.  Our latest work has culminated in innovative decentralized feedback architectures with information overlapping among subnets to significantly improve control performance.  The tests were conducted in National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), Taiwan, as a joint effort with Prof. Chin-Hsiung Loh‘s group at National Taiwan University.

Selected Publications

  1. Wang, Y., Law, K.H., Loh, C.-H., Huang, S.-K., Lu, K.-C. and Lin, P.-Y. (2011). “Multi-subnet wireless sensing feedback for decentralized H2 control with information overlapping,” Proceedings of the 2011 AmericanControl Conference (ACC 2011), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 29 – July 1, 2011.

  2. Wang, Y. and Law, K.H. (2011). “Wireless sensor networks in smart structural technologies,“ Recent Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks (Ed. Lin, J.-C.), InTech, Rijeka, Croatia.

  3. Wang, Y. and Law, K.H. (2011). “Structural control with multi-subnet wireless sensing feedback: experimental validation of time-delayed decentralized H∞ control design,” Advances in Structural Engineering, 14(1): 25-39.

  4. Wang, Y., Law, K.H., Loh, C.-H., Huang, S.-K., Lu, K.-C., Lin, P.-Y. (2010). “Decentralized Wireless Structural Sensing and Control using Genetic Algorithm Optimization,” Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Structural Engineering, Guangzhou, USA, China, December 18 – 20, 2010.

  5. Law, K.H., Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A. and Lynch, J.P. (2010). “Wireless sensing and vibration control of civil structures,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems, Waikiki, HI, USA, August 29 – September 3, 2010.

  6. Swartz, R.A., Wang, Y., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H., and Loh, C.-H (2010). “Experimental validation of market-based control using wireless sensor and actuator networks,” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (7CUEE) & 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering (5ICEE), Tokyo, Japan, March 3-5, 2010.

  7. Wang, Y. and Law, K.H. (2009). “Decentralized H∞ structural control with experimental validation using multi-subnet wireless sensing feedback,” Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technologies (ANCRiSST), Bonton, MA, July 29 – August 1, 2009.

  8. Law, K.H., Swartz, R.A., Lynch, J.P. and Wang, Y. (2009). “Decentralized control strategies with wireless sensing and actuation,” Proceedings of the 2009 NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, HI, June 22 – 25, 2009.

  9. Law, K.H., Swartz, A., Lynch, J.P. and Wang, Y. (2008). “Wireless sensing and structural control strategies,” Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technologies (ANCRiSST), Tokyo, Japan, June 24 – 25, 2008.

  10. Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Zimmerman, A., Askin, A.C., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H., Lu, K.-C. and Loh, C.-H. (2008). “Decentralized wireless structural sensing and control with multiple system architectures operating at different sampling frequencies,” Proceedings of SPIE, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems II, 6935: San Diego, CA, March 9 – 13, 2008.

  11. Lynch, J.P., Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Lu, K.-C. and Loh, C.-H. (2008). “Implementation of a closed-loop structural control system using wireless sensor networks,” Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 15(4): 518-539.

  12. Wang, Y., Loh, K.J., Lynch, J.P. and Law, K.H. (2007). “Wireless sensing and control,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, Harbin, China, July 1 – 4, 2007.

  13. Wang, Y., Lynch, J.P. and Law, K.H. (2007). “Information driven wireless sensing and control for civil structures,” Proceedings of the World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology (SMSST07), Chongqing & Nanjing, China, May 22 – 27, 2007.

  14. Wang, Y., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H., Loh, C.-H. and Elgamal, A. (2007). “Reliable information management in a low-cost wireless structural monitoring and control network,” Proceedings of SPIE 14th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 6529: 65291J, San Diego, CA, March 18 – 22, 2007.

  15. Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H. and Loh, C.-H. (2007). “Performance evaluation of decentralized wireless sensing and control in civil structures,” Proceedings of SPIE 14th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 6531: 653113, San Diego, CA, March 18 – 22, 2007.

  16. Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H., Lu, K.-C. and Loh, C.-H. (2007). “Decentralized civil structural control using real-time wireless sensing and embedded computing,” Smart Structures and Systems, 3(3): 321-340.

  17. Loh, C.-H., Lynch, J.P., Lu, K.-C., Wang, Y., Chang, C.-M., Lin, P.-Y. and Yeh, T.-H. (2007). “Experimental verification of wireless sensing and control system for structural control using MR dampers,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 36(10): 1303-1328.

  18. Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H., Lu, K.-C. and Loh, C.-H. (2006). “Application of decentralized wireless sensing and control in civil structures,” Proceedings of the US-Taiwan Workshop on Smart Structural Technology for Seismic Hazard Mitigation, Taipei, Taiwan, October 12-14, 2006.

  19. Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H., Lu, K.-C. and Loh, C.-H. (2006). “Decentralized real-time velocity feedback control of structures using wireless sensors,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, October 12-13, 2006.

  20. Loh, C.-H., Lu, K.-C., Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Lynch, J.P. and Law, K.H. (2006). “Discussion on the application of wireless active sensing unit for structural control,” Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA, July 11 – 13, 2006.

  21. Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H., Lu, K.-C. and Loh, C.-H. (2006). “Decentralized civil structural control using a real-time wireless sensing and control system,” Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA, July 11 – 13, 2006.

  22. Wang, Y., Swartz, R.A., Lynch, J.P., Law, K.H., Lu, K.-C. and Loh, C.-H. (2006). “Wireless feedback structural control with embedded computing,” Proceedings of SPIE 11th International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, 6177: 61770C, San Diego, CA, February 26 – March 2, 2006.

  23. Wang, Y., Lynch, J.P. and Law, K.H. (2006). “Wireless sensing, actuation and control — with applications to civil structures,” Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture (Ed. Smith, I.F.C.), Springer, Berlin, Germany.

  24. Lu, K.-C., Wang, Y., Lynch, J.P., Lin, P.-Y., Loh, C.-H. and Law, K.H. (2005). “Application of wireless sensors for structural health monitoring and control,” Proceedings of the 18th KKCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Kaoshong, Taiwan, December 18 – 20, 2005.
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