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Domain |
Components |
Remarks |
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Smart members |
- Structural members (beams, slabs, diaphragms, columns, foundation)
- Sensed, detected & actuated, mitigated with smart controls
- Member approach
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Each monolithic member is controlled independently, thus all research efforts applied
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Coupling linkages |
- Control of connections, supports and joints within & between smart members
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Connection strength, stiffness, stability & fixity crucial to overall control
Esp. seismic vibrations
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Centralized control system |
- Centralization & coordination of member controls for effective overall structural controls
- Communications centre with minimal database & external coupling
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Global approach
Balancing conflicting desired controls to reach structural objectives
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Intelligent agents |
- Using intelligent agents for independent member smart controls
- Each agent has autonomy, mobility & intelligence
- All agents are loosely coupled to central system for combined effort
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Scouting software agents
Autonomy: freedom of duty, competence region
Mobility: range utilized
Intelligence: flexible knowledge base, application & reasoning
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Database |
- Knowledge bank: created initially, accumulated over time by agents
- Flexible & extensible: for new approaches & knowledge
- Updates allowed, through servlets
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Keeping records, status
Engineering relations inferred through intelligence
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Clients |
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Changes to objectives, focus, control scope, structural changes, environment differences
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Plots, statistics & trends according to client need
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Changes to objectives, constraints, tolerances
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Degree of control achieved, structural details, safety, needed improvement
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External |
- Protocol linkages to external sources
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Environment changes, constraints, live load expectancy
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References |
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Society of multiple self-interested agents for global behaviour
Machine learning
Teamwork modeling
System of smart members controlled by multiagents
NN Links
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