Project Grant 2525293
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $199,498 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The award, under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, aims to develop advanced technologies to enable intelligent robots to efficiently and autonomously interact with objects in everyday human environments, such as homes and retail stores, based on natural language task descriptions. The...
- This $800,000 Project Grant award to The Trustees of Princeton University, Department of Research and Project Administration, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award aims to develop new techniques for constructing a vision-based safety supervisor that can endow autonomous robotic systems, such as self-driving cars and home robots, with the safety property of "graceful degradation."...
- Rutgers, The State University was awarded a $749,708 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the "FMITF: TRACK I: SYNTHESIS AND VERIFICATION FOR PROGRAMMATIC REINFORCEMENT LEARNING" project from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The project aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $545,980 Project Grant to Princeton University from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds research at Princeton University to develop generalization and safety guarantees for learning-based control of robots. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,490,276 project grant to Rutgers, The State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2026 to develop robust and efficient physics-based learning and reasoning capabilities for degraded environments. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and informatics research, education, and...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop a scalable framework for achieving robust and assured performance of autonomous agents, such as warehouse robots, delivery robots, drones, and robo-taxis, in real-world environments. The research will integrate formal methods, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent control theory to address critical...
- This $375,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The goal of the project is to develop tools and methods to help ensure the safe operation of autonomous systems that utilize reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Key activities include: 1) developing inverse RL algorithms to learn an agent's reward function from demonstrations, 2) exploring the agent's norms to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (University of Virginia) to conduct research on developing methods to improve the safety and reliability of robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) operating in complex real-world environments. The key objectives of the 3-year project are to: 1) create techniques to extract...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $375,000 to the University of Massachusetts to conduct research on aligning the norms of autonomous robots with human values. The key activities include: Developing inverse reinforcement learning algorithms to learn reward functions from demonstrations constrained by deontic logic. Systematically exploring the trained agent's...
- This $750,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering." The grant was awarded to the University of Texas at Austin to develop a new paradigm for robot learning from demonstrations (LfD) using program synthesis techniques. The research aims to address limitations in existing neural network-based LfD approaches by combining them with...
This Project Grant award of $899,109 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at Rutgers, The State University to advance science at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and formal verification. The project aims to develop new algorithms for the synthesis and verification of robot control programs that can enable reliable and transparent robot behavior in real-world settings. Key technical contributions include abstraction refinement techniques to automatically generate symbolic representations of environment states and robot capabilities, which guide the synthesis of interpretable, compositional control programs. This approach enables robots to reason over long-term goals, adapt to novel environments, and be certified as safe before deployment, with the goal of improving the efficiency and reliability of real-world robotic systems. The project will be performed at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey over a period from September 2025 to August 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $899.1k | 7/30/25 |