Project Grant 2038761
- This $800,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Rutgers, The State University in New Brunswick, NJ. The goal is to develop affordable, accurate, and near-real-time spectrum situational awareness and protection capabilities using backscatter radio fabric technology. Specifically, the project will: Develop a framework for multidimensional spectrum situational awareness using a backscatter fabric to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provides $190,000 to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research investigating ways to share the electromagnetic spectrum using an automatic spectrum management system. Specifically, the funding will support prototyping and field testing of a Zone Management System in an urban testbed established across facilities in New York City's Harlem neighborhood....
- The Trustees of Princeton University Office of Research and Project Administration Division, doing business as Princeton University, was awarded a three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant will fund research into developing robotic perception and manipulation capabilities beyond traditional line-of-sight and contact-based sensing. Specifically, Princeton University researchers will explore...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SWIFT: NONLINEAR AND INSEPARABLE RADAR AND DATA (NIRAD) TRANSMISSION FRAMEWORK FOR PARETO EFFICIENT SPECTRUM ACCESS IN FUTURE WIRELESS NETWORKS." The three-year award, effective October 1, 2021 through September 30,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Project Grant to 2KR Systems, LLC through the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support development of a low-cost, wireless structural monitoring network for early warning of movements in infrastructure and geographic features. Under the award, 2KR Systems will construct sensors to measure commercial rooftop movement from snow and wind loading. The sensors will use precision radio receivers to create 3-axis,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Trustees of Princeton University. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "Resilient Multi-User Mobile Sub-THz Networks Using Near-Field Wavefronts" from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029. The project aims to explore near-field propagation properties of wireless signals above 100 GHz to enable...
- This federal Project Grant award of $199,904 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by President And Board Of Trustees Of Santa Clara College (Santa Clara University) to develop advanced analytical methods for designing more agile and reconfigurable radio-frequency (RF) resonators. The project aims to leverage advanced mathematical and physical modeling techniques to explore complex resonator geometries that can significantly improve the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $343,340 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to North Carolina State University (NC State) to develop an innovative, adaptive, and resource-efficient sensing system. The project aims to jointly optimize the data acquisition, reconstruction, and inference stages of sensing systems through a learning-based, physics-aware framework. The key objectives include: (1) developing learning-based signal reconstruction techniques, (2)...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program provides $150,000 to Baylor University to conduct collaborative research on large-scale wireless RF networks of microchip sensors. The key objectives are to: 1) build a microsensor system and demonstrate low-error rate and efficient asynchronous, encoded wireless transmission in the laboratory using fabricated microchips, and 2) decode signals from a hypothetical brain implant composed of up to 8,000...
- This Project Grant award of $693,989 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research by the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The research aims to enable "mutualistic cyber-physical interaction" for self-adaptive monitoring of damage to civil infrastructure. Key components include: 1) deep learning-based damage prognostics to...
This Project Grant award of $399,966 from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation supports the development of a scalable intelligent backscatter-based radio frequency sensor network for self-diagnosis of structures. The award period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, will utilize the funding to advance research that enables the creation of a collaborative radio frequency sensor network. The network will allow for self-diagnosis of structures through backscatter technology, supporting the goals of the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to foster innovation in engineering research.