This $489,214 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research by Oregon State University (OSU) to develop techniques to help robots recover from grasping failures in various settings, including homes and underwater environments. The project aims to improve the success rate and reduce the number of attempts required for robotic grasping, particularly when faced with unknown object parameters, moving objects, and cluttered...
Oregon State University was awarded a $499,971 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research from October 2021 through September 2024 to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. The funding will allow investigators at...
This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant, funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at Boston University from March 2023 to February 2028 on decentralized and online planning for emergent cooperation in multi-robot teams. The grantee will develop new distributed and decentralized control algorithms through research on reputation, reciprocity, and co-existence. This aims to enable robot teams to adapt cooperation based on task, surroundings, and...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $549,995 supports research and education activities at the University of Texas at Austin from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2027. The award is funded through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to enable intelligent robot manipulation in real-world tasks. Specifically, the award will advance the development of new algorithms and tools for intelligent robot manipulation outside controlled research...
This National Science Foundation award provides $676,010 to the University of Southern California through August 2025 to support research and education activities focused on decision-making foundations for human-supervised legged robot teams. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award will support the development of methodologies for modeling human-supervised robot team missions and task assignment considering risk and efficiency. It will...
The National Science Foundation awarded Montclair State University a $173,490 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research from July 2021 to June 2023 on developing a bi-trust framework to improve collaboration between humans and robots. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and informatics research and education. This award will further those goals by exploring how...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $420,530 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant supports a 3-year collaborative research project aimed at "Aligning Robot Representations with Humans". The key objectives are to: 1) develop new types of human...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $331,119 was made to The Washington University in St. Louis on May 15, 2024. The grant will fund research to develop foundational interactive perception-based planning capabilities for robot teams operating in unknown and unstructured environments. The goal is to empower robots to collaboratively engage with and reconfigure perceived environments to...
Brown University was awarded a $114,440 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The grant will support the development of methods for heterogeneous teams of monitoring robots to collaboratively map and track physical, chemical, and biological processes in marine environments through distributed sensing and data assimilation. Key products...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $301,586 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems on October 1, 2021 to support research infrastructure for real-time computer vision and decision making via mobile robots through September 30, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which aims to advance computing, communications, and information science through...