Georgia Tech Research Corporation was awarded a $320,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation to develop data-driven robustness and safety methods for reinforcement learning algorithms applied to traffic signal control systems. Under the grant, researchers will advance foundational methodologies to enable safe and robust reinforcement learning-based solutions for smart transportation systems. The technical work includes developing robust reinforcement learning solutions...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $194,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Georgia Tech Research Corp to conduct research on safe reinforcement learning. The project aims to develop new approaches for training, improving, and evaluating reinforcement learning policies that are robust to distribution shift and non-stationarity, with the goal of ensuring safety in applications such as robotics, autonomous driving, and power systems. Key innovations...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research to develop proactive and reactive adversarial learning techniques for cyber-physical-human systems, with a focus on increasing resilience in autonomous vehicles. Key outcomes include policies to provide robustness against adversarial...
This $270,913 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, supports research to develop qualitative and quantitative methodologies for assessing the safety of learning-enabled autonomous systems. The project, led by the Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (AURI), will target foundational challenges in capturing uncertainties from environments and providing timely, comprehensive, and...
This $500,000 project grant, awarded on January 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to address the urgent need for end-to-end safety in learning-enabled autonomous systems across various application scenarios, such as self-driving cars and urban air mobility. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SLES: GUARANTEED TUBES FOR SAFE LEARNING ACROSS AUTONOMY ARCHITECTURES,"...
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 $272,238 Project Grant, awarded on July 15, 2024 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enhance the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. The project aims to identify vulnerabilities in the software and machine learning components of autonomous vehicle systems, and develop mitigation techniques to improve their overall resilience. The research will combine model-based and...
This $199,992 National Science Foundation Engineering Research Initiation project grant to Texas A&M University-Commerce will support research and education activities contributing to autonomous vehicle safety and privacy. The two-year award from the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems begins June 1, 2023. The university will develop new knowledge and techniques for interpreting driver behavior and intentions using deep learning modeling of limited sensory data....
This $572,778 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support research and development at North Carolina State University (NC State) to address fundamental challenges in simulation-based testing of autonomous driving systems (ADS). The key objectives are to: 1) Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of simulation-based ADS testing by leveraging...