The National Science Foundation awarded a $590,469 project grant to the University of Texas at Austin on April 1, 2021 for research titled "CAREER: ROBUST PERCEPTION AND CUSTOMIZATION FOR LONG-TERM AUTONOMOUS MOBILE SERVICE ROBOTS." The grant is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Under this five-year project grant, the University of Texas at Austin will...
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...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $480,602 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to support research related to reliable storage and computation in memory technologies from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering....
The University of Texas at Austin received a $525,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award is part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will support research on "Movement as a Vital Sign in Preterm Infants" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. As part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program's goal of advancing computing and...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $220,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The award is part of the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to support collaborative research titled "CCSS: LEARNING TO OPTIMIZE: FROM NEW ALGORITHMS TO NEW THEORY" from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024. Under this award, the University of Texas at Austin will conduct research to develop new algorithms and...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $409,550 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award running from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 will support research developing models and algorithms for optimal vision-based surveillance and exploration of complex environments. The funding will enable work advancing scientific understanding of major...
This $279,640 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The award supports collaborative research to develop new mathematical foundations and algorithms for multi-task reinforcement learning. The goal is to enable more data-efficient reinforcement learning, which has applications in areas like robotic control, wireless communications, and protein structure prediction where...
The University of Texas at San Antonio received a $403,354 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2021 to support an artificial intelligence powered robotics research program through March 31, 2024. The grant funds an NSF Engineering Directorate program titled "REU SITE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POWERED ROBOTICS IN 5G NETWORKS" conducted in San Antonio, TX under the federal Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 47.041. The program leverages advances...
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...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $285,681 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INFERRING THE IN SITU MICRO-MECHANICS OF EMBEDDED FIBER NETWORKS BY LEVERAGING LIMITED IMAGING DATA." The three-year award, issued on January 1, 2022 under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will fund research aimed at improving understanding of the...