This is a $322,054 training grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Texas at Austin. The contract is for "DATA-DRIVEN MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF ROBOTIC IN-SITU CONSOLIDATION OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES" and has an ultimate completion date of August 14, 2026. The University of Texas System is the parent organization of the University of Texas at Austin, which has significant experience executing federal contracts and grants across a wide...
This federal contract award with ID NNX15AQ42H was issued by NASA to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a component of the University of Texas System, for the SATHE RESEARCH PROJECT. The objective is to develop a dexterous, high-performing, and safe humanoid robot capable of working alongside humans with 99.99% safety while maintaining industrial-grade precision. The $277,101.96 award will fund research and development in areas such as ultrafast collision detection, high-stiffness...
This is a $310,506.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for research on "EFFICIENT ADAPTIVE TRACKING FOR SAFE ROBOTIC OPERATIONS IN MICROGRAVITY WITH DYNAMIC UNCERTAINTIES". The grant has a performance period ending on July 31, 2027. UT Austin is a non-profit educational institution that frequently secures federal research contracts and grants from agencies like NASA, DARPA, and the Department of...
This federal contract award, valued at $298,260.24, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a non-profit educational institution. The contract is for research related to autonomous landing, specifically the lander's ability to locate a landing site (mapping) and its position relative to that landing site (localization). This contract is not a set-aside award. UT Austin, a subsidiary of the University of Texas System, has a...
This federal contract award, valued at $2,710,286.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) under a Cooperative Agreement. The goal of this project is to develop the technology required to provide absolute navigation and timing services in lunar orbit via optical-based tracking of surface features. UT Austin, a prominent public research university, will perform this work through its expertise in aerospace engineering, sensor technology, and...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $265,478 training grant (contract 21-NSTGRO22-0254) from a civilian federal agency for a project titled "Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking with the Aid of Optical Maneuver Detection." Awarded on August 29, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of December 20, 2025, this contract represents a non-competitive award with no set-aside designation. The project will be performed in Austin, Texas, leveraging UT Austin's extensive capabilities in...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,937,667.00, was granted to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The contract supports the advancement of efficient algorithms for self-organization and reliable tasking of multiple heterogeneous (air and ground) platforms over extended mission timelines inside contested environments. The award is part of a larger Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)...
This is a $8,690,397.00 definitive contract awarded by the Department of the Army to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to support the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) foundational research mission. The contract is for a controlled unclassified information compliant workspace dedicated to integrating early-stage academic solutions into Army robotics software stacks and testing with Army-furnished equipment and vehicles. This...
This federal contract award, NNX15AU31H, was granted by the Shared Services Center to the University of Houston System, doing business as the University of Houston at Victoria. The $96,576.02 award is for a project to develop an autonomous cargo manipulation system for the Tri-Athlete robot prototype. The system will use computer vision and machine learning to interpret cargo presence, position, and orientation, and guide the robot's inverse kinematics to manipulate the cargo. The project will...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order contract awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 (VISN 20) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for $54,000.00. The contract is for research services related to the design of a novel exoskeleton controller. UT Austin, a major public research university, will leverage its expertise in areas like aerospace engineering, materials science, and sensor technology to support this research effort. The...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AQ33H, was granted by a civilian agency to the University of Texas at Austin, which is part of the University of Texas System. The contract is for a training grant focused on "Controlling Robots with a Spring in Their Step", with the goal of developing a new control strategy to enable stable, fast, and responsive walking on compliant robot legs. The total potential value of the contract is $279,323.32, with a completion date of June 3, 2020. No set-aside designation is mentioned. The University of Texas at Austin has extensive experience as both a prime and subcontractor on federal research grants and contracts, across diverse scientific and technical domains. This project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in compliant robot control, which could have applications in areas like planetary exploration, manufacturing, and assistive robotics.