Project Grant FA95502410176

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) has been awarded a $2,499,579 Project Grant from the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop "DIGITAL TWIN ENABLED AUTONOMOUS CONTROL FOR ON-ORBIT SPACECRAFT SERVICING." This 3-year grant, awarded on September 25, 2023, aims to increase the resilience and availability of space assets through research on autonomous on-orbit servicing, refueling, repair, and towing/decommissioning. UCSC is collaborating with...

This $199,066 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to automate the creation of digital twins for manufacturing systems using computer vision and deep learning. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a novel framework for fully automated digital twin generation through innovations in computer vision, deep learning, and data labeling. This will significantly reduce the manual effort...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant award provides $174,980 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop techniques and a framework for enabling "live 3D digital twins" - real-time digital representations of 3D physical objects. The project aims to create adaptive digital twin pipelines that can maintain low latency and high accuracy across varying network and compute resources, with applications...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $224,642 to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to create high-fidelity digital models, or "digital twins," of space-specific power generation sources, loads, communication, and control systems. This research aims to support NASA's Artemis program, which seeks to return humans to the Moon and establish a sustainable presence there. The project involves...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate Project Grant supports the development of a digital twin composition method by Diamond Age Technology LLC. The awardee will develop techniques to efficiently combine disparate data sources describing industrial process facilities into a single digital representation with sub-centimeter accuracy. This digital twin can then be projected into spatial computing environments like virtual and augmented reality. The goal is to encode...

This Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Technology Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.012) provides $499,496.00 to the University of Illinois to develop and validate a generalized ICME-based digital twin toolkit for real-time weldability assessment of structural aluminum alloys and cryogenic austenitic stainless steel for in-space welding. The research aims to address challenges related to the impact of low temperatures, low pressure, and...

This $570,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for heterogeneous transfer and personalized federated learning to address mathematical and computing challenges in creating digital twins for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The project, led by researchers at The Ohio State University, takes an interdisciplinary approach combining expertise in statistics,...

This is a $3,625,863 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA #47.083) to New Mexico State University (NMSU) to establish the Center for Distributed Resilient and Emergent Intelligence-based Additive Manufacturing (DREAM). The project aims to develop the foundational networking, cybersecurity, and digital twin technologies to enable a distributed additive manufacturing (AM) ecosystem across New Mexico. Key objectives include:...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant awarded $275,000 to ADA TECH LLC to develop a novel artificial intelligence-powered generative design solution. The project aims to integrate consumer data, Internet of Things (IoT) telemetry, and design for excellence (DFX) engineering specifications into 3D generative computer-aided-design models. The primary objectives are to enable the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $269,979 to the Santa Fe Institute of Science to conduct collaborative research on developing robust digital twin models that can accurately predict the behavior of complex systems under unexpected conditions. The key objectives are to: Investigate the generalization abilities of digital twins by combining mathematical tools from nonlinear dynamics and machine...