Project Grant 2133142

The University of Colorado received a two-year, $1,045,429 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to conduct collaborative research on dispersed autonomy for marsupial aerial robot teams. The grant was awarded January 1, 2022 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), with work expected to be completed by December 31, 2024 at the university's Boulder, Colorado location. The project aims to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance space exploration by improving the collaboration and resilience of multi-robot systems in extreme environments. The $269,069 award to the University of Vermont will develop data-driven mechanisms to enhance the fault tolerance and performance of autonomous vehicle formations for missions to the Moon and other celestial bodies. The key objectives are to: (1) establish...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083), provides $271,129 to support research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to develop a new method for multi-agent control of robotic systems. The research focuses on incorporating density information to optimize transport-based multi-agent exploration and maximize efficiency for applications such as wildlife monitoring,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award, under CFDA 47.041 Engineering, provides $150,000 in funding to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2027. The project aims to develop scalable, distributed optimal control algorithms for multi-robot systems that can operate in real-world environments without relying on centralized computation or perfect localization. Key objectives include formulating an optimal topology selection...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering), will provide $300,000 to the University of Illinois to conduct research on enabling quadrotor robots to safely interact with and assist humans through customized, user-taught functionalities. The research effort aims to develop a framework that allows anyone to safely...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $845,377 to Alabama A&M University to develop a framework for controlling and coordinating swarm robotics systems, specifically unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The project aims to bridge the gap between high-level behavioral specifications and real-time operational control of robotic swarms by integrating reinforcement learning and temporal logic. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Purdue University to develop methods for heterogeneous teams of robots to physically interact and cooperate in performing search and rescue tasks in collapsed building environments. The $348,915 award from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 will enable the researchers to create symbiotic capabilities between different types of robots, such as small mobile microrobots...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports the development of a modular, reconfigurable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform at Penn State University. Funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program for $100,000, the award period is July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. The project aims to develop a system of self-contained, compatible rotorcraft modules that can be assembled in various configurations to fulfill diverse transportation and payload...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $1,640,000 Project Grant to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to develop more resilient autonomous robotic systems. The 4-year project, titled "EFRI BRAID: Resilient Autonomous Navigation Inspired by the Insect Central Complex and Sensorimotor Control Motifs," aims to leverage recent discoveries in insect neuroscience to enable robots to rapidly adapt to changes in their environment or damage...

This $174,660 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the Rochester Institute of Technology to develop full automation capabilities for bird-sized unmanned aerial vehicles operating in unknown, cluttered indoor environments using only an RGB-D camera for visual perception. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing and information sciences, this...