Project Grant 2339820

This $292,694 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program supports research by Iowa State University to develop new computational methods and frameworks for enabling shared visual interfaces between small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and human users. The goals are to 1) create a shared visual interface to allow the human and UAV to collaborate on manipulation tasks, 2) develop computational methods to leverage human multimodal inputs for object manipulation with UAVs, and 3) integrate these capabilities to improve human-UAV collaboration. This 5-year project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in human-robot interaction for small UAVs, producing new datasets, technical knowledge, and educational outcomes. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.