The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,999 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports research titled "EAGER/COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN AUTONOMOUS MODULAR VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY-BASED MULTIFACETED MOBILITY SERVICE PARADIGM ? A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT STUDY" from August 2021 through July 2023. The research aims to develop and test concepts for an autonomous modular vehicle technology-based mobility service model...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $202,000 Project Grant to Michigan State University under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The funding will support collaborative research to develop scalable, data-driven predictive control frameworks for managing mixed traffic systems with connected and automated vehicles alongside human-driven vehicles. The project aims to enable advancements in transportation efficiency and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded Northwestern University a $379,022 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research on artificial intelligence-driven multi-scale design of materials under processing constraints. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $244,610 Project Grant to the University of Michigan-Dearborn under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083). The grant will fund the acquisition of an autonomous plug-in hybrid vehicle platform and sensor suite to support multidisciplinary research and education at the University through August 2025. Specifically, the platform will enable research and training in critical areas like machine learning algorithms for autonomous...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $528,406 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funds a research study combining experimental and theoretical approaches to examine human interactions with automated vehicles. As part of its mission to improve engineering research and education, the NSF Engineering program supports innovation through grants like this that investigate...
This $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support research at Northwestern University exploring distributed robotic manufacturing to achieve scalable patterning of micro-structured functional surfaces. The NSF's Division of Computer and Network Systems and Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation are providing funding through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing and...
This $547,447 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northwestern University toward developing an integrative machine learning approach for traffic management. The three-year award, issued on September 1, 2022 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will create and test hybrid machine learning methods tailored for transportation domain problems involving hierarchical optimization of ridesharing and traffic flows. The grantee will introduce a novel framework combining...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $203,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund a collaborative research project that aims to develop a new data-driven model-free control and optimization framework to enable efficient, robust, and safe coordination of connected and automated vehicles in mixed traffic systems with human-driven...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant supports the collaborative research project "Economic Modeling and Control Methods for Next Generation Carpool Services" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2024. Under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation, the University...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded North Carolina State University a $583,473 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund the development of MAARCO, a Multi-Terrain Amphibious Arctic Explorer, from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of its mission to foster innovation in engineering research and education, the Engineering program aims to improve quality of life and economic...