This is a $291,076.74 training grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of California, operating as the University of California, Berkeley. The contract is for developing robots that can actively query humans to determine the desired reward function when operating with limited supervision, such as on the International Space Station or distant planetary rovers. This is intended to enable the robots to complete their tasks safely and as intended, without...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Berkeley, is a $585,038 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop distributed teams of very low-mass, small-scale mobile robots that can monitor and manipulate a planet's surface environment for sampling and exploration purposes. The award does not have a set-aside designation. UC Berkeley, as the prime contractor, will be conducting research under this grant, which has an ultimate completion date...
This is a $547,557 federal grant award to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The grant is for UC Berkeley to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and Congressional direction. The research will focus on scientific activities related to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, with a goal of...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AP15A, was issued by NASA to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The $694,933.45 cooperative agreement supports research into high-order methods for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems, which are critical for predicting aeroelastic flutter and other complex fluid-structure phenomena. The research aims to develop advanced algorithms and simulation capabilities,...
This is a $578,010 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating open competition. UC Berkeley is the prime contractor and will leverage its expertise in areas such as space...
This federal contract award, valued at $511,113.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The contract is for research related to Titan, a solar system object with an induced magnetosphere, and the motions of the incident plasma. This is an example of UC Berkeley's extensive work with federal agencies, including NASA, the Department of Defense,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $276,651.40 training grant contract to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The contract aims to advance the state of the art in near-term quantum computing for applications that are critical to space exploration, such as air traffic management and planning for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The research program will explore the...
This is a $277,999.37 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Contracts and Grants Division. The contract is focused on improving human-robot collaboration for future space exploration missions. The goal is to develop methods for robots to effectively communicate their status and intent to astronauts using limited modalities such as sounds, motion, and lights. The work will involve user...
This is a $165,783 grant award from NASA's Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley. The grant is for the team to work with a mission design team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), or Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to develop an end-to-end mission concept. The award does not have a set-aside designation and has a period of performance ending on January 15, 2023. UC...
This federal contract award, with the ID 80NSSC25K7689, was granted by the Shared Services Center of a Civilian federal agency to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The $519,515.00 grant is for a research contract that will run through March 31, 2028. The contract requires UC Berkeley to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,...
This is a federal contract award from the NASA Shared Services Center to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The $276,715.27 training grant contract is for research on developing simplified, reduced-order, and potentially hybrid nonlinear models for closed-loop trajectory tracking in underactuated robotic systems. The work aligns with NASA's Space Technology Roadmap TA04 on Robotics and the autonomy technical area. While the contract is motivated by applications for tensegrity structures, the techniques developed are expected to be applicable to a variety of autonomous or robotic systems NASA uses, such as the Robonaut 2 manipulator. This contract does not have a set-aside designation.