The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) was awarded a $180,000 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CISE-MSI: DP: RI: TOWARDS SCALABLE, RESILIENT AND ROBUST FORAGING WITH HETEROGENEOUS ROBOT SWARMS", aims to develop a highly efficient, resilient, and robust heterogeneous robot swarm system composed of UAVs and UGVs for foraging tasks in large unknown environments. The key research areas include decentralized multiple shortest-route planning algorithms, federated learning algorithms for privacy-preserving collaborative model training, and a sub-trajectory discord based early anomaly detection module to enhance the resilience and robustness of the swarm. The grant period runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026. No subawards are planned under this award.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $180.0k | 8/17/23 |