Cooperative Agreement W911NF2220221

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, totaling $998,000, will fund research at Augusta University Research Institute to develop a holistic data-driven design framework for modeling and controlling human-cyber-physical systems. Specific products and services include a new hybrid learning architecture to accurately model human behaviors and decision-making; extended reality-assisted interfaces to enhance...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,969 to San Jose State University Research Foundation to demonstrate the use of mixed reality and edge computing in human-robot interaction and collaboration. The key objectives are to: Develop immersive, context-aware experiences to study the psychological and ethical impacts of human-robot interaction using mixed reality simulations....

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to create a personalized training framework that adapts to each worker's cognitive functions and sensorimotor skills in collaborative robotic manufacturing environments. The $299,953 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, with a completion date of August 31, 2026, focuses on advancing personalized training strategies for complex...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated $208,418.65 under a Cooperative Agreement to study human-autonomy teaming through mobile games and wearable sensors from September 7, 2021 through October 31, 2023. This award will support research related to the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), which aims to fund basic research that could improve Army programs or operations....

This $190,504 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of novel methodologies for multi-robot coordination grounded in human collaboration. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the awardee Brown University will create an online crowdsourcing application to collect data on how distributed human teams coordinate to complete tightly coupled tasks when constrained to limited information and actions similar to robots....

This National Science Foundation project grant of $235,898 supports collaborative research on human-automation interaction for the future of work through August 2024. Funded by the Integrative Activities program under the CFDA number 47.083, the award to the University of New Hampshire will develop the science and technology of intuitive human-automation interactions that promote safety, transparency, dignity and trust. Specifically, the university will conduct research with German...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), supports research on "Brain-Inspired Human-Robot Cooperative Autonomy via Distributed Inference and Trust." The $250,000 award to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. will fund the development of trust-based algorithms and mechanisms to enable robots to evaluate and combine inputs from human operators, improving the efficiency and robustness of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research at Arizona State University (ASU) to create a new modeling and learning framework enabling efficient coordination between a human and robot in urgent and safety-critical sensorimotor tasks. The $300,000 award, from September 2024 to August 2026, will integrate ideas from behavioral economics, game theory, optimal control,...

The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research awarded a $216,701 Project Grant to Cornell University's Office of Sponsored Programs under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The three-year award beginning April 1, 2021 will support the development of a CYBER-PHYSICAL AUGMENTED REALITY TESTBED FOR AI-SUPPORTED REAL-TIME HUMAN-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS COLLABORATIONS (REALTHASC). The testbed will allow for research into improving naval operations through augmented...

This five-year, $673,782 National Science Foundation project grant in the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at Purdue University to develop a control-theoretic framework for modeling human cognitive state dynamics during human-automation interaction. The framework will define a human cognitive state space and characterize its dynamics in a model that can be used for control system design. A methodology will be created to estimate cognitive states and parameters in real time...