The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $289,067 project grant to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to support research titled "AUTONOMOUS FLYING FIRE BLANKET: NEW ADAPTIVE AND LEARNING ARCHITECTURES FOR MULTI-UAV COOPERATIVE FORMATION WITH FIREFIGHTING APPLICATIONS." The three-year grant, issued on January 1, 2022 under the NSF Engineering (47.041) program, will fund the development of new autonomous and learning architectures to enable cooperative formation flying by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Specifically, the university researchers will work to design multi-UAV systems capable of deploying "fire blankets" - presumably coordinated aerial formations that can help contain and suppress wildfires. The place of performance is Lexington, KY. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to foster innovation in engineering research areas with potential societal benefits such as improved emergency response.
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