Title : 
Optimal sensor placement in micro-distributed systems
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Various problems associated with the optimal placement of sensors for complete observation of the spatial profile of a solid microdistributed system such as micromachined deformable structures with compact spatial domains in Rn are posed as optimization problems involving set measures. These optimization problems are generally nonsmooth and combinatorial in nature. Computational algorithms and numerical results for optimal placement of sensors in a generic one-dimensional micromachined structure are discussed
         
        
            Keywords : 
combinatorial mathematics; distributed sensors; micromachining; observers; optimisation; 1D micromachined structure; compact spatial domains; micromachined deformable structures; nonsmooth combinatorial optimization; optimal sensor placement; set measures; solid microdistributed system; spatial profile observation; Application software; Art; Control systems; Cost function; Distributed computing; Electric variables measurement; Monitoring; Repeaters; Sensor systems; Wireless sensor networks;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
American Control Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chicago, IL
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-5519-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ACC.2000.876975