U'S'Japan Program in Natural Hazard Mitigation

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U.S.-Japan Program in Natural Hazard Mitigation
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Introduction

• Devin Brown
• Education
• New Mexico State University, Bachelor of Science
  in Civil Engineering (B.S.C.E.), May 2001
• University of Notre Dame, Graduate Student in
  Department of Civil Engineering and Geological
  Sciences since June 2001.

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Where is Notre Dame?
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Where is Notre Dame?
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Where is Notre Dame?
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Where is Notre Dame?
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University of Notre Dame

• Founded 1842
• Celebrating 160th Anniversary in 2002

• Private, Catholic University

• Faculty 1,000
• Students 10,000
• 7,500 undergrads, 2,500 graduate

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University of Notre Dame

• College of Arts and Letters
• College of Science
• College of Engineering
• College of Business
• College of Law

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University of Notre Dame

• Engineering College
• Faculty 105
• Students 1,250 (1,000 undergrads,
  250 graduate)
• Department
• Faculty 20
• Students 250 (200 undergrads, 50 graduate)

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Tele-Presence Laboratory in Earthquake Engineering

• Devin A. Brown
• Young Researchers Symposium
• Tokyo
• June 2002

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Outline

• What is Tele-Presence?

• Motivation for Development

• At Notre Dame

• Current Status

• Future Work

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What is Tele-Presence?
Tele-Presence
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Motivation for Development

• Concurrent research in earthquake engineering is
  now conducted to a great extent between
  universities throughout the world
• The exchange of ideas and coordination of
  research would be greatly facilitated by
  integrating this research into a form accessible
  by researchers everywhere
• This project will provide such accessibility to
  advanced concepts in earthquake engineering

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Tele-Presence Objectives

• Build a structural model on a shaking table
• Provide the ability to control inputs to the
  structure (e.g. earthquake excitation, damper
  force)
• Include visual representation of the structure to
  the user animation and/or video feedback
• Make all of this available via the Internet for
  use by researchers throughout the world

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At Notre Dame

• Preparations are underway for the launch of a
  fully functioning tele-presence web site
• Initial site will feature
• Shaking table experiment
• User input and output control
• Real-time animation and video
• MR fluid damper technology

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Current Status
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Current Status
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Current Status
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Current Status
WebLab Animated Model
Real-Time Video
User Input Selection
User Output Selection
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Future Work

• Improve the flexibility of the current model by
  implementing more advanced features where
  possible
• Begin to develop additional models, incorporating
  other aspects of earthquake engineering and
  structural control
• Use Weblab to apply the Simulink model to the
  Internet allowing the user full control over all
  options

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Acknowledgments

• Special thanks to the following individuals for
  their valuable contributions to this project
• B.F. Spencer, Jr.
• Aaron Vorwerk
• Yong Gao

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