Project Grant 2122271
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded a $659,558 project grant to The Trustees of Princeton University to advance the understanding and application of tunable tensegrity structures and metamaterials. The 3-year project, starting on March 1, 2024, aims to: (i) design tensegrity structures with customized geometries, (ii) leverage additive manufacturing for rapid prototyping, (iii) construct large-scale tensegrity structures for applications like temporary shelters,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $241,714 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University from the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research between Princeton University and other organizations to apply machine learning and robotics techniques for the data-driven design of protein-polymer hybrid materials. Specifically, the researchers will use machine learning and robotics to more...
- The Trustees of Princeton University was awarded a $463,485 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. The grant supports research titled "Designing Novel Tunable Colloids via Inverse Statistical Mechanics" from January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2024. Under this NSF Engineering grant (CFDA #47.041), Princeton University researchers will develop new methods to design colloidal particles with...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $358,885 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ENGINEERING FRACTURE RESPONSE AND TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR IN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED, LAYERED CONCRETE MATERIALS." The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support research at Princeton University to study fracture properties and material transport within additively...
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology received a $199,997 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The funding supports research to develop a novel system representation framework for complex engineering systems using technology recursion and the renormalization group transformation method. The research aims to establish a rigorous mathematical...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $350,000.00 to The Trustees of Princeton University to conduct collaborative research on the design, kinetics, and reconfigurable assembly of multicomponent crystals. The goal is to understand how to precisely arrange microscopic colloidal particles to create new materials with customizable properties. The project will use experiments and computer simulations to develop new strategies...
- The Trustees of Princeton University received a $348,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. The award, which began on August 1, 2023 and runs through July 31, 2026, will fund direct numerical simulations of droplet break-up in turbulence in both inertial and viscous regimes. This research aims to advance the fundamental understanding of droplet fragmentation dynamics and inform the development...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) project grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FW-HTF-RM: HUMAN-IN-THE-LEAD CONSTRUCTION ROBOTICS: FUTURE-PROOFING FRAMING CRAFT WORKERS IN INDUSTRIALIZED CONSTRUCTION", was awarded to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for $263,595 with a period of performance from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. The goal of this research is to establish the technical and social foundations that promote...
- 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...
- 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...
The Trustees of Princeton University received a $430,904 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant supports research titled "WASTE-FREE ROBOTIC CONSTRUCTION OF SPATIAL DISCRETE ELEMENT STRUCTURES" from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. Under this award, Princeton University will develop waste-free robotic construction techniques for discrete element structures in space. The research aims to advance the NSF Directorate for Engineering's goals of improving quality of life and economic strength through innovative engineering research. Researchers will work to design robots capable of assembling structures from discrete components on-site with minimal material waste, a capability especially useful for construction activities in space. Results of this research could enable more efficient construction processes both on Earth and in space.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $430.9k | 8/9/21 |