This is a collaborative research project between Washington University in St. Louis, Michigan State University and University of Nevada Reno and is investigating a cyber-physical framework for scalable, long-term monitoring and condition-based maintenance of civil infrastructures. Civil infrastructure constitutes a network of interdependent systems and utilities (e.g., highways, bridges, rail systems, buildings) that are necessary for supporting social and economic activities.

The goal of this project is to create a scalable and robust cyber-physical system (CPS) framework for the observation and control of the functional interdependencies between bridge structures (stationary physical systems) and trucks (mobile physical agents).  A CPS framework (Figure 1) is being developed to monitor and control trucks within a single highway corridor to manage the imposed loads and the consumption of structural life by trucks on highway infrastructure including bridges.

Abstract: The goal of this research project is to create a scalable and robust cyber-physical system (CPS) framework for the observation and control of the functional interdependencies between bridge structures (stationary physical systems) and trucks (mobile physical agents).  Figure 1 shows the architecture of the proposed CPS framework for the observation and control of truck loads imposed on highway bridges.  While many accomplishments have been achieved during the first year of the project, this poster pres