The University of Michigan was awarded a $549,826 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the research project "CAREER: ENHANCING TRUST-DRIVEN HUMAN-AUTONOMY INTERACTION: MODELING TRUST DYNAMICS AND SUPPORTING TRUST CALIBRATION" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2026. The grant funding will support investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications,...
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 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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,870 to Michigan Technological University to develop a secure framework for intelligent 3D sensing systems, with a focus on applications such as autonomous vehicles. The project aims to enhance the robustness and security of 3D sensing technologies, which are critical for modern applications like autonomous driving, identity verification, and industrial design. The research...
Arizona State University received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research and education improving quality of life and economic strength. The two-year award funds a research project titled "EMBODIMENT OF HUMAN VALUES PROFILES IN THE CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES." The project aims to advance understanding of how to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program provides $556,507 in funding to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2028. The award supports fundamental research to investigate human driving behavior and interactions among traffic participants, with the goal of enabling technological advances in autonomous and connected vehicles. The research will leverage an immersive virtual reality driving simulator to conduct...
This $316,963 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will support research to enhance the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. The project aims to thoroughly examine and improve the controller and machine learning components of autonomous driving systems through a combination of model-based and data-driven approaches. The research will focus on identifying spatial and temporal vulnerabilities that...
This $120,000 Project Grant was awarded on July 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The funding will support a collaborative research project focused on enhancing the safety and reliability of autonomous driving systems through the development of advanced detection and countermeasure techniques at the application, system, and...
This five-year, $673,782 National Science Foundation project grant in the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at Purdue University to develop a control-theoretic framework for modeling human cognitive state dynamics during human-automation interaction. The framework will define a human cognitive state space and characterize its dynamics in a model that can be used for control system design. A methodology will be created to estimate cognitive states and parameters in real time...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,710 project grant to the University of Michigan-Dearborn under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The university will design reliable autonomous engineering systems with active failure prevention through computer simulations. Researchers will establish theoretical foundations to efficiently analyze reliability of autonomous systems equipped with active failure prevention despite uncertainty. They will also co-design physical and cyber...