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The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded $255,719 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to Quantworks, Inc. to develop drone-delivered automated external defibrillators for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims. The Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will create algorithms to optimize drone spatial distribution and integrate emergency drone response directly into 911 dispatch systems. This includes real-time launch decision support...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering), will provide $300,000 to the University of Illinois to conduct research on enabling quadrotor robots to safely interact with and assist humans through customized, user-taught functionalities. The research effort aims to develop a framework that allows anyone to safely...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award of $300,000 will fund an "EAGER: TASKDCL: DRONEVISION, A PHYSICS-BASED ENVIRONMENT USING FLYING LIGHT SPECKS" project at the University of Southern California (USC). The project aims to develop a novel "physics-based environment called DRONEVISION that will enable its users to see illuminated objects with their naked eyes and to have haptic interactions with them using their bare hands." It will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA #47.041) awarded a $199,977 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System to research and develop a decision-support system for integrating drone technology into rural healthcare supply chains. This 2-year award, effective May 1, 2024, aims to address the challenges of delivering essential medical supplies to remote areas, which are hindered by limited infrastructure, vast distances, and harsh weather conditions. The...

The University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. This grant, under the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will fund a 3-year research project to develop an effective drone obstacle avoidance system using innovative event camera technology. The key products to be delivered include: Bio-inspired event filtering...

This $1,200,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Illinois to establish millimeter wave (mmWave) radar as a first-class perception and control tool for small autonomous robots and drones. The project aims to develop new radar-based localization, mapping, and semantic scene understanding capabilities that can operate on the limited onboard compute of small robots...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Purdue University to develop methods for heterogeneous teams of robots to physically interact and cooperate in performing search and rescue tasks in collapsed building environments. The $348,915 award from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 will enable the researchers to create symbiotic capabilities between different types of robots, such as small mobile microrobots...

This $175,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212), aims to develop a high-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed aerial system (UAS) with a persistent, high-spatial resolution L-band radar platform. The purpose is to create a capability for collecting sustained, high-resolution imagery to support applications in wildfire monitoring, fuel moisture...

This $234,512 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) will fund the University of Cincinnati to develop and deploy a Topographic Laser Scanning Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (LIDAR Drone) for research on exchanges of water, energy, and mass in human-impacted watersheds. The grant award has a performance period from January 6, 2025 to January 5, 2026. The research aims to advance...

This EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $299,861 to George Mason University to conduct research on adapting mixed reality training programs to real-world scenes to enhance human-AI teaming for emergency response. The goal is to develop a novel optimization-based generative framework that can adapt mixed reality training scenarios to real-world environments, enabling...