CII Research Laboratories

CII
CENTER FOR INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE

Founded on September 1, 2019, the CII is a Missouri S&T research center that crosses the boundary of academic departments and provides sustained administrative support to the operation of externally-funded centers, including the five-year INSPIRE University Transportation Center (UTC) and Missouri S&T part of the Mid-America Transportation Center (MATC)....
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HMCR
CENTER FOR HAZARD MITIGATION AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE

The Sinquefield laboratory tornado simulator at the Center for Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience, directed by Dr. Guirong (Grace) Yan, can produce translating tornadoes with a single vortex or with multiple vortices. It is composed of a circular duct with an outer diameter of 20.20 feet, a fan in the middle, a bridge crane, and a ground plane...
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REAL
ROBOT ENGINEERING, APPLICATION, AND LEARNING LABORATORY

Housed in the CII, this laboratory is currently under development and will be completed by September 1, 2020. The laboratory has a floor area of approximately 45 m2 and will support the development, application, and education of various types of robots, featuring robotic design, fabrication, testing, and demonstration. It will provide robotic support to interdisciplinary research and education within the mission of the CII....
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SERL
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORY

The SERL facility in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (CArEE) at Missouri S&T is a research/education complex that includes a high bay structural testing laboratory, a materials laboratory, and a machine shop. The high bay structural testing laboratory is approximately 35 m long and 22 m wide, having a total of 770 m2 usable floor areas for testing and evaluation of large- and full-scale structural components and structural systems....
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SAL
SYSTEMS ANALYTICS LABORATORY

The SAL has a laboratory space of approximately 40 m2, featuring sensors, feedback devices, and computing resources for use in prototyping, analyzing, testing, and optimization of various complex systems. The SAL’s five work stations are equipped with GPUs from its computing resource. The SAL has multiple types of sensors capable of capturing human motions such as one Microsoft Kinect motion capture system, one flip video recorder, and two Myo armbands....
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SPAR
SYSTEM AND PROCESS ASSESMENT RESEARCH LABORATORY

Housed in the Butler-Carlton Hall for the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (CArEE), the SPAR Lab was originated in 2014 as the result of extensive research collaborations over the previous 15 years among the departments of civil engineering, electrical engineering, material science and engineering, computer science, and chemistry....
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VIRTUAL
VISUAL INSPECTION RESEARCH AND TRAINING USING AUGMENTED LEARNING

Housed in the CII, this laboratory has two rooms: one for digital simulations and the other for physical testing. The laboratory features unique capabilities to individually train 10 drone pilots/inspectors in each cohort with the latest augmented reality and gaming environment technologies in four levels. At the first level, both a robot and a bridge are simulated using a computational tool in a controllable background (virtual) environment. At the second level, a robot prototype and a virtual bridge are simulated in a hybrid experimental/computational tool. At the third level, both a robot prototype and an idealized bridge girder are used for the ultimate training of inspectors in close-to-reality scenarios inside the laboratory. At the four level, pilots/inspectors will practice their skills at a mock-up steel-girder bridge. Laboratory equipment includes: 10 sets of high performance computers (DELL R11), training drones (Parrot - Drone Anafi Extended and Potensic A30W RC Mini Quadcopter), training simulator (ZEPHYR), and virtual reality headset (Valve Index VR Kit).

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W&W
WEB AND WIRELESS COMPUTING LAB

Under the direction of Dr. Sanjay Madria, Curators’ Professor in Computer Science, the Web and Wireless Computing Lab at Missouri S&T has a floor area of approximately 60 m2 and includes more than 35 servers, dedicated desktops, and several mobile devices such as cell phones and tablets. The lab servers are equipped with several machine learning tools like TensorFlow, Colab and Keras. The Lab provides an in-house cloud, big data and Hyperledger block-chain infrastructure environment, including a private hybrid cloud using an Eucalyptus open source platform....
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