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Project Grant 2433608

Award Date 9/1/24
Completion Date 8/31/26
Dollars Obligated $300K
Federal Agency
Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
Awardee
Montana State University (EJ3UF7TK8RT5)
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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The key products or services to be delivered through this funding include:

  1. A personalized training framework that adapts to individual worker's cognitive and sensorimotor skills to improve learning outcomes and job satisfaction in collaborative robotic manufacturing environments.
  2. Novel synthetic actors, such as avatars, to enhance training and communication across diverse cultures and demographics.
  3. Insights on the impacts of integrating synthetic actors and wearable physiological monitoring on cognitive workload and task performance during complex manufacturing training.
  4. Development of real-time adaptive instruction driven by AI and biometric feedback to influence worker safety, efficiency, and satisfaction in collaborative robotic training settings.

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