This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $177,560 to San Diego State University Foundation to develop a new training program that will equip students with essential skills needed for conducting and potentially transforming foundational research on unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The project involves four training modules focused on key aspects of UAS cyber infrastructure, including control,...
This federal Project Grant award for $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support a collaborative research project focused on learning-assisted integrated sensing, communication, and security for 6G unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Developing deep learning-based techniques for UAV millimeter wave (mmWave) localization and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Houston System, a Hispanic Serving Institution, for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CISE-MSI: DP: CNS: ENABLING ON-DEMAND AND FLEXIBLE MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING WITH INTEGRATED AERIAL-GROUND VEHICLES." The project aims to develop an innovative "Aerial-Ground Intelligent Vehicular Edge (AGILE)" system that...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $314,818 project grant to San Diego State University Foundation doing business as San Diego State University Research Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant aims to develop an enhanced open networked airborne computing platform to facilitate design, implementation, and testing of airborne computing systems integrating control, computing, communication, and networking functions. Key...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $628,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from June 2021 to May 2024. The grant supports the development of open-source hardware and software to evaluate unmanned aerial vehicle systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This program aims to advance computing and communications technologies, including cyberinfrastructure to accelerate innovation....
This $274,354 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Nevada, Reno to develop techniques for improving the resilience of vision-guided unmanned aerial vehicles and other autonomous systems against cyberattacks. The grant is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research. Specifically, the research aims to advance an observability analysis framework for detecting and responding to stealthy...
This $46,664 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research at Iowa State University to develop new computational frameworks and methods enabling shared visual interfaces between small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and human users. This will improve the ability of UAVs and humans to safely and effectively collaborate on manipulating objects in dynamic...
This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations will fund the development of an innovative aerial imaging system that incorporates state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) for real-time data processing and analysis. The project, titled "CISE-MSI:DP:REAL-TIME AERIAL IMAGING WITH EDGE AI," is a collaboration between students and faculty at Norfolk State University (NSU), a minority-serving institution...
This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a planning effort to explore foundational requirements and constructs for enabling safe, reliable interactions between users and uncrewed aerial systems (drones) in diverse work environments. The goal is to develop an initial conceptualization, planning, and collaboration activities to inform the design of future large-scale...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $322,886 supports the establishment of a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University focused on networking research for drone swarms in the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Over three years, the project will engage eight undergraduate students per summer in research activities under the guidance of experienced mentors. Key areas of focus include dynamic network management, network...