Project Grant FA86552017029

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $389,042 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop interaction-aware planning and control techniques for robotic navigation in crowded, dynamic environments. Over a three-year period from September 2022 to August 2025, the university researchers will pursue three goals: first, constructing new algorithms to find approximate equilibrium solutions in...

This $500,000 project grant, awarded on January 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to address the urgent need for end-to-end safety in learning-enabled autonomous systems across various application scenarios, such as self-driving cars and urban air mobility. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SLES: GUARANTEED TUBES FOR SAFE LEARNING ACROSS AUTONOMY ARCHITECTURES,"...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,999 to Orbital Services Corporation LLC will enable the development of novel capabilities for autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations with uncooperative space objects. The key products of this SBIR Phase I project include: Synthesized neural Lyapunov functions to be integrated into control systems, enabling safe inspection and capture of uncooperative, uncontrolled,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $175,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc. The grant, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2027, will support collaborative research to develop data-driven methods for realizing and predicting the behavior of state-space dynamical systems using low-complexity algorithms. The project aims to leverage advanced machine learning techniques to efficiently...

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Region awarded a $913,453 cooperative agreement to The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs under the Aviation Research Grants program (CFDA 20.108). The award will support development of guidance for designing human-automation systems for air traffic control over a two-year period from December 2022 to December 2024. Under the award, The Ohio State University will collaborate with the University of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $127,658 to Trustees of Boston University to develop computational design flows and runtime systems for accelerators used in autonomous robotic systems. The key products and services include: Developing a library of hardware design flows for common motion planning computations in autonomous robots. Establishing representations, interfaces, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at Louisiana State University (LSU) to develop mathematical methods for controlling important classes of dynamical systems used in aerospace engineering. The $100,000 grant, awarded from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will produce designs and theory for interval contractors and reference governors to address input and state constraints in aerospace systems. The research...

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $251,017 Project Grant under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to the University of Florida to conduct research on "Provable Resilience for Visual Terminal Artificial Intelligence Guidance." The grant, awarded on May 21, 2024, supports the development of advanced AI-driven tools for visual terminal guidance applications. As part of the grant, the University of Florida has subcontracted a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University to conduct collaborative research on interval contractors and reference governors with aerospace applications. The 3-year award period runs from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The research aims to develop mathematical methods for controlling important classes of dynamical systems used in aerospace engineering, with a focus on producing controls...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $290,000 to William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) to develop interpretable task and motion planning (TAMP) methods that can reason about uncertainty and incorporate implicit models. The 3-year project, beginning on May 1, 2024, aims to enhance TAMP with capabilities to handle noise in robot sensing and actuation, address pathological uncertainty, and integrate human preferences...