Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC20M0079

This $197,354 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research and development on "Information-Theoretic Multiagent Paths for Anticipatory Control of Tasks (IMPACT)." The project aims to advance the scientific and engineering value of intelligent navigation systems by developing novel computational techniques for autonomous robots to plan optimal paths based on exploration, risk, and...

This $259,661 Project Grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center will fund the development of advanced entry and powered descent guidance technology for precise planetary landing at Purdue University from April 2021 through April 2022. The project aims to develop a highly implementable onboard optimal guidance approach that optimizes complete entry, powered descent, and landing trajectories in real-time to achieve fuel-optimal and precise landing for...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $269,069 to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College to advance space exploration through the development of data-driven robustification mechanisms for multi-agent robotic systems. The primary goal is to enhance the fault tolerance and resilience of multi-robot formations, enabling more efficient and reliable exploration of celestial bodies like the...

This $3.75 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the augmentation of the Chrono computer simulation platform at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from July 2022 through June 2025. Chrono is an open-source simulation engine used across multiple fields to model interactions between mechanical systems, environments, and humans in applications like lunar rover engineering, vehicle design, wind turbines,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $50,000.00 to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) to conduct research on bipedal robot locomotion on the moon. The research aims to leverage dynamic modeling, control theory, hybrid systems, and reinforcement learning to advance bipedal robot mobility on the lunar surface. Key objectives include improving the understanding of lunar locomotion mechanics, investigating...

This three-year, $199,872 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to augment the Chrono computer simulation platform to better simulate autonomous agents and human-autonomous agent interactions. Led by Carnegie Mellon University, the multi-disciplinary team of 40 researchers will upgrade Chrono to incorporate recent computational dynamics innovations to generate machine learning training data, facilitate comparison of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant award of $286,524 to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is focused on using simulations to generate testable predictions for the NASA ESPEX mission. The primary objectives are to: Collaborate with scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to generate synthetic observations from UNLV's simulation data to assist in the design of the ESPEX mission, which aims to study early star and planet...

NASA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $105,254 project grant under the Space Technology program to Planet Enterprises on March 26, 2021. The grant supported development of a drilling system and mission architecture utilizing a Perseverance-type rover as a drill rig with minimal science instruments. The proposed system and mission design advances NASA's goals under the Space Technology program to transform future space exploration missions and...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $376,203 supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop new expressive and differentiable robotics simulators from 2022 to 2026. The research aims to address key limitations in existing simulators that hamper accurate physical modeling of robots and hinder closing the gap between simulation and real-world performance. Specifically, the researchers will establish the mathematical foundations for robotics simulators with...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totaling $900,000 will support the development of an open-source autonomous driving simulation platform called MetaDriverse. The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley will use the three-year award beginning March 2023 to create an interactive simulation environment featuring realistic visuals and real-world traffic scenarios. MetaDriverse aims to serve as a research...