{"id":1639,"date":"2017-01-30T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/mcml\/?page_id=1639"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:38:58","slug":"iris-intelligent-resilient-infrastructure-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/mcml\/cv\/iris-intelligent-resilient-infrastructure-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"IRIS: Intelligent Resilient Infrastructure Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Baskerville, Georgia, Arial, Garamond;font-size: medium\"><br \/>\nProgram Sponsor<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Baskerville, Georgia, Arial, Garamond;font-size: medium\"><br \/>\nThe IRIS initiative is funded by Vanderbilt\u00a0<strong>Trans-Institutional Programs (TIPs)<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Background and Motivation<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The nation\u2019s civil infrastructure is aging and in poor health: ASCE Civil Infrastructure Grade: <b>D+\u00a0<\/b>(Dams: <b>D<\/b>; Levees: <b>D<\/b>-)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Infrastructure protection systems are exposed to more natural disturbances (e.g., hurricanes, tsunamis, drought-flood cycles) with ever increasing severity, as a consequence of climate change.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Flood protection systems (e.g., levees and dams) are especially vulnerable to climate change\u00a0 \u00a0 induced natural disasters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1641\" style=\"width: 516px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1641 \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Picture1.png-2.png\" alt=\"New_Orleans\" width=\"516\" height=\"337\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">September 3, 2005 &#8211; 17th Street Canal breach during Hurricane Katrina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1640\" style=\"width: 516px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1640 \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Picture1.png-1.png\" alt=\"Ascension_Parish\" width=\"516\" height=\"344\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">August 12, 2016 \u2013 15,000 structures in Ascension Parish, LA flooded after levee along Amite River overtopped<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Vision and Approach<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">Vision<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Intelligent and resilient systems that organically interact (i.e., inform as well as adapt to demands) with local communities and decision makers in order to function efficiently and effectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Make Vanderbilt a <i>hub<\/i> for intelligent resilient infrastructure systems research and education innovation with emphasis on flood protection systems (FPS) such as levees, earthen- and concrete dams.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Research Approach<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A fully integrated, multi-disciplinary, <i>cyber-physical <\/i>systems strategy to effectively monitor FPS health and inform <i>actionable<\/i> information to decision makers. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/IRIS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1642 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/IRIS.png\" alt=\"IRIS\" width=\"511\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Core Team<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1659\" style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Team1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1659 \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Team1.png\" alt=\"*CEE: Civil and Environmental Engineering; EES: Earth and Environmental Sciences; EECS: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\" width=\"517\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">*CEE: Civil and Environmental Engineering; EES: Earth and Environmental Sciences; EECS: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Physical System<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>The project will enable smart resilient infrastructure systems that use a data (sensor)-driven and model-based approach to effectively manage and enhance resiliency.<\/li>\n<li>Data-driven diagnostics and model driven prognostics for infrastructure resilience.<\/li>\n<li>A FPS test-bed for IRIS: <i>Levees<\/i>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><i>Significant government focus on improvement of levee safety<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Many flooding disasters are linked to levee breaches<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Levees protect 43% of US population from flooding<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Physical_System_New.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1661 \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Physical_System_New.png\" alt=\"Physical_System_New\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">Physical Modeling of FPSs<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Multiphysics modeling of structural deficiency: coupled seepage (i.e., fluid flow) and deformation.<\/li>\n<li>Multiscale modeling and characterization of failure:\n<ul>\n<li><i>Contributions to failure from different scales \u2013 variational multiscale enrichment method<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Identification of physical health indicators as a function of load and environment history.<\/li>\n<li>Prediction of time evolution of health.<\/li>\n<li>Physical model update as a function of local and remote measurements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Model_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1651 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Model_1.png\" alt=\"Model_1\" width=\"518\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Remote_Sensing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Remote_Sensing.png\" alt=\"Remote_Sensing\" width=\"132\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">Remote Sensing and Monitoring of FPSs<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)\u00a0allow for routine monitoring of FPS at low cost.<\/li>\n<li>Combination of hyperspectral imaging\u00a0and Lidar observations allows for a detection of minute changes in FPS\u00a0elevation or structure.<\/li>\n<li>While not necessarily related to acute\u00a0structural failure, these observations will provide important information\u00a0to update physical models and help\u00a0identify critical areas that might require closer monitoring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Decision Support System<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">Risk-Based Decision Making<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Decision_Support.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1653 aligncenter\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Decision_Support.png\" alt=\"Decision_Support\" width=\"224\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>For a set of FPS disruption scenarios, we are developing methodologies to assess:\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><i>Human casualties<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Physical damage<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Loss of use<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Community disruption<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Regional, national, and\u00a0<\/i><i style=\"font-family: inherit\">international impacts<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Anticipated benefits:\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>Identification of <\/i><i>a suite <\/i><i>of disaster scenarios associated with <\/i><i>FPS vulnerability\/resilience.<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>Process for identifying <\/i><i>FPS \u201chot <\/i><i>spots\u201d for installing sensors<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>Method for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of various risk mitigation <\/i><i>strategies.<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>Establishing interdependence relationship within and across infrastructures before, during, and after the disruption.<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>Opportunity to make the business case for investing in <\/i><i>FPS resilience.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">Human Decision Support Interface<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>We are building a decision support interface that allows the user to:\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><i>Easily <\/i><i>consider each strategic <\/i><i>alternative. <\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Update strategies.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Explain <\/i><i>the resulting alternatives to individuals with different risk preferences and perspectives on critical factors<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The development of all aspects related to the decision support system is therefore dependent on direct engagement with potential users and delivery of information in a natural and visual manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Numerous factors\u00a0(experience and bias)\u00a0influence the quality\u00a0and speed of\u00a0decisions made\u00a0by decision-makers,\u00a0experts, and non-experts alike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The user must be able to easily understand the current situation with the FPS and how the alternative strategies will impact its future state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Decision_Making.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1654 aligncenter\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/Decision_Making.png\" alt=\"Decision_Making\" width=\"87\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>We are using a joint experimental and cognitive modeling approach to assess how such factors influence FPS decision-making.\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>Experimentation provides a wealth of information about the outcomes and properties of decisions<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>Cognitive modeling, which has <\/i><i>proven\u00a0<\/i><i style=\"font-family: inherit\">useful in other fields, but has not yet been\u00a0<\/i><i>applied in this \u00a0context, will allow us to<\/i><i>\u00a0assess how factors such as caution and<\/i><i>\u00a0bias influence decision quality, and how<\/i><i>\u00a0they are influenced by external factors\u00a0<\/i><i>(time pressure or experience).<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Outreach and Community Engagement<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">Stakeholders Participation<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Understanding decision-making and decision makers:\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><i>Local boards, local governments, mayors office, private owners<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Emergency responders, FEMA<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Understanding needs of local communities surrounding FPS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Identifying Core <\/b><b>R<\/b><b>esearch Strengths at Vanderbilt<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Advisory council: Prof. Mark Cohen (Owen), Prof. Steve Buspy (Nursing), Prof. Nina Martin (Peabody) and Prof. Gabor Karsai (Engineering).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Gaining <\/b><b>V<\/b><b>isibility and <\/b><b>F<\/b><b>orming Partnerships<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Forging USACE ties, IRIS seminar series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Research Experiences for Students<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Graduate student participation.<\/li>\n<li>Summer experiences for undergraduate students.<\/li>\n<li>K-12 outreach: Harpeth Hall students for January STEM program; Tennessee Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Research (TWISTER) career conference; Advising school for Science and Math students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Multidisciplinary Education<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Cross-College Education<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>We are investing in merging fundamental ideas concerning human judgment, decision-making, and software-based decision support to develop new, and strengthen existing courses across the School of Engineering (VUSE) and the College of Arts and Sciences (A&amp;S).<\/li>\n<li>We are marrying the ideas of physical modeling, data analytics and machine learning, and remote sensing to introduce VUSE and A&amp;S the ideas of intelligent infrastructure systems and concepts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>New Course Offerings<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">We are offering new courses to our curriculum such as Infrastructure Systems Engineering and Risk-Based Decision Making to expose undergraduate students to novel ideas and concepts, not currently available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sustainability and Growth Opportunities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Our goal is to establish Vanderbilt as a national and international player in intelligent and resilient infrastructure systems research;<\/li>\n<li>Work with all schools within Vanderbilt to identify and connect critical research connected to the IRIS vision (e.g., through Advisory Council);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/IRIS_Scheme.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1655 aligncenter\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/2017\/01\/IRIS_Scheme.png\" alt=\"IRIS_Scheme\" width=\"274\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pursue external funding opportunities \u2013 Recent major funding opportunities in this area include:\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><i>NSF CPS, <\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>NSF NHERI, <\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>NSF CRESP,<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>NIST, DHS, <\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>USACE, <\/i><i>\u2026<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program Sponsor The IRIS initiative is funded by Vanderbilt\u00a0Trans-Institutional Programs (TIPs).\u00a0 Background and Motivation The nation\u2019s civil infrastructure is aging and in poor health: ASCE Civil Infrastructure Grade: D+\u00a0(Dams: D; Levees: D-) Infrastructure protection systems are exposed to more natural disturbances (e.g., hurricanes, tsunamis, drought-flood cycles) with ever increasing severity, as a consequence of 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