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...
This five-year, $323,314 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at The Ohio State University to develop modeling techniques for analyzing and designing collaborative behavior in human-robot teams. The grant falls under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, which aims to advance computing and informatics research. Specifically, the researchers will formalize representations for joint human-robot activity using graph theory and agent-based...
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,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance space exploration by improving the performance and resilience of multi-agent robotic systems for harsh environments like the Moon or Mars. The $269,069 award to the University of Vermont will develop data-driven control mechanisms to enhance fault tolerance and adaptive capabilities of distributed robot formations. The project will partner with NASA's Jet...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will fund research to develop safe and reliable human-robot shared control for robotic teleoperation in complex and extreme environments. The $602,698 award to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation will support three key research activities: 1) creating a new teleoperation method for humanoid and non-humanoid robotic arms to mimic human arm...
This five-year, $1.2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program will fund research into community-embedded robotics through long-term autonomous deployments. The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with the University of Texas System, will combine expertise in human-robot interaction, human factors, organizational communication, science and technology studies, team science, and research informatics. The project aims to study interactions...
This Project Grant award of $117,000, provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Space Operations program (CFDA 43.007), aims to explore the viability of voice communication and a software-delivered text communication tool called "Braiding" for space-ground collaboration during Artemis lunar missions with short signal latencies. The research will focus on the Private Medical Conference (PMC), a critical operational conversation between astronauts and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) for $377,580 aims to develop an integrated framework to understand, predict, and support team situational awareness in multi-human-multi-agent teams operating in uncertain and dynamic environments. The key objectives are to: 1) identify optimal information display for specialized team roles and structures, 2) establish novel metrics and computational models for team...
This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to advance dexterous teleoperation and human-robot collaboration technologies. The $160,000 award supports research to develop a learning-based robot control policy, a safety-aware multi-modal perception system, and integrated control and feedback mechanisms for intuitive and precise bi-directional human-robot interactions. The project...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) program (CFDA 43.008) provides $100,000.00 for the development of a compact, non-invasive, and efficient vision screening system for long-term spaceflight missions. The research aims to evaluate a novel framework enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) as a proof-of-concept, robust, low-cost system for detecting visual deficits caused...