This $458,725 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to develop innovative radar technologies. The key research objectives are: 1) designing multi-band radar transceivers with precise frequency and phase synchronization for enhanced range resolution; 2) integrating polarimetric radar systems with rapid calibration methods to extract detailed object characteristics; and...
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) was awarded a $460,747 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop innovative remote sensing technologies and methodologies for precision agriculture. The 4-year project, running from October 2023 to May 2027, aims to recycle existing radio frequency (RF) communication and navigation signals to enable new remote sensing capabilities in microwave spectrum...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $274,059 provides funding for Solopulse Corporation to develop a single-pulse radio frequency software suite to improve safety for advanced driver assistance systems. The award falls under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), which seeks to advance research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies and solutions to national challenges. Specifically, the awardee will develop and test software to...
This $400,312 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the University of Alabama's research project to innovate automotive radar perception capabilities for enhanced vehicle safety and autonomous driving. The project aims to develop novel adaptive, collaborative radar sensing and machine learning algorithms to address the limitations of current automotive radar systems, such as mutual interference, multipath issues, and inadequate angular...
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...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $254,707 will fund the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to automate and accelerate the processing of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series data. The grant was awarded to Geolabe LLC on March 1, 2023 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). Specifically, the company will work to further automate key sections of the InSAR processing pipeline that...
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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $276,000 to Astrabeam LLC and Penn State University to develop a D-band, silicon-based phased array radar front-end module for smart sensing applications. Specifically, the awardees will design, model, simulate, and demonstrate a prototype radar module operating beyond 100 GHz with wide bandwidth. The scalable, area-efficient front-end architecture and phased array...
This Project Grant award of $174,988 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will support the development of a millimeter-wavelength (mmWave) rapid scan image phased array radar technology demonstrator unit. The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of a future ground-based, mobile phased array cloud radar system that could provide high-resolution measurements of cloud processes, which are crucial for understanding the Earth's climate and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) for $497,157 provides funding 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 project aims to reimagine the boundary between analog and digital signal processing, enabling low-power and ADC-free radar...