Project Grant 2153386
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Temple University to develop new sparse array design strategies and signal processing techniques for large array apertures and high spatial resolutions using fewer sensors. The 3-year project (9/1/2023 - 8/31/2026) aims to reduce hardware complexity and enhance performance in applications such as wireless communications, automotive radar, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces....
- This $199,870 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of an AI-enhanced, reconfigurable sparse antenna array (RSA) system for cognitive sensing and radar applications. The key products and services to be delivered include: Algorithms and techniques to enable dynamic interference suppression by rapidly and intelligently selecting antenna subsets from a uniform grid of antenna locations. This includes the use of deep...
- This $700,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations supports research at Michigan State University to enhance the security and robustness of autonomous driving systems against physical-world perceptual illusion attacks. The project aims to develop advanced sensing and learning technologies that can effectively detect and mitigate malicious attempts to create false perceptions that could undermine the safety of...
- This $360,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by Rutgers, The State University to advance dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) technology. The project aims to develop a novel MIMO ISAC (Integrated Sensing and Communication) system that can efficiently utilize bandwidth for both high-speed communication and high-resolution sensing, particularly in high-mobility scenarios where traditional systems face...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $175,000 Project Grant to the University of Alabama from May 2021 through April 2023 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds research to develop cyber resilient localization and navigation technologies for autonomous vehicles. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing, communications, and information science...
- This $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will fund research at Duke University to develop new approaches for enabling predictable wireless communication and radar sensing for 6G wireless technology. The key research thrusts include: 1) designing modulation schemes to simplify prediction of the wireless input-output relationship, 2) developing signal processing filters in the...
- This $1,200,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Illinois to establish millimeter wave (mmWave) radar as a first-class perception and control tool for small autonomous robots and drones. The project aims to develop new radar-based localization, mapping, and semantic scene understanding capabilities that can operate on the limited onboard compute of small robots...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant period runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The goal of the research project is to explore low-cost integrated circuit technology for next-generation 240 GHz multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) radar...
- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), awarded a $1,136,746 project grant to Northeastern University to co-develop radio frequency (RF) architectures, analog computing algorithms, and compute-in-memory architectures for code-domain, multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems. The goal is to reimagine the boundary between analog and digital signal processing for MIMO radar,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Trustees of Boston University. This 3-year grant, effective from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028, aims to introduce new concepts and algorithms that improve the performance of Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) LIDAR technology or maintain current performance while reducing hardware requirements. The research focuses on advancing FMCW LIDAR, which is used to...
This $174,964 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The grant funds development of a novel sparse framework for automotive radar sensing to enable high-resolution environmental perception for autonomous vehicles. Key products include algorithms applying matrix completion to irregular sparse arrays, achieving high angular resolution with low-cost small form factors and reduced interference risk. Additional algorithms will sparsely allocate radar chirps across frequency and temporal domains for high-resolution range profiling while significantly decreasing mutual interference probability. The University of Alabama will conduct the research from May 2022 through April 2024.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $175.0k | 3/1/22 |