Project Grant N000141912497

Marine Advanced Robotics, Inc. was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program to further develop collaborative algorithms for autonomous swarming of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs). The company's Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel technology provides a family of portable, foldable and energy-efficient USVs that can rapidly deploy and map predefined survey areas without existing infrastructure....

This $150,000 Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Florida Atlantic University to develop scalable, distributed optimal control algorithms for coordinating multi-robot systems in real-world environments. The project aims to solve the coupled problem of optimal and stable topology selection for multi-robot teams, enabling more robust coordination without dependence on centralized infrastructure. The research will focus...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617), supports an interdisciplinary team at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) to enhance maritime cybersecurity. The $625,000 award will be used to update and refine cybersecurity standards, including NIST SP 800-39, for maritime critical infrastructure operators. The team will also develop and validate a...

This Project Grant award, titled "SECURE INTERACTION-AWARE MULTI-ROBOT COOPERATION," was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), which administers the Basic and Applied Scientific Research federal grant program (CFDA 12.300). The $109,386 award was made on March 10, 2025 to Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft), a leading technical university in the Netherlands, to conduct advanced research and development on secure multi-robot cooperation capabilities. TU Delft has a...

This $818,396 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will develop a multi-agent AI system of three bio-inspired underwater vessels and a control buoy. The goal is to enhance understanding of hydrodynamics and control of multi-swimmer systems, advance the theory and practice of programmable underwater networks, and enable effective survey of coastal zones. Key deliverables include: (A) three bio-inspired robotic fish...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $845,377 to Alabama A&M University to develop a framework for controlling and coordinating swarm robotics systems, specifically unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The project aims to bridge the gap between high-level behavioral specifications and real-time operational control of robotic swarms by integrating reinforcement learning and temporal logic. The...

This $199,867 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Michigan to develop formal methodologies for synthesizing cyber-secure and resilient control logic for networked discrete-event systems subject to cyber attacks. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year project commencing September 2022 aims to enhance the reliability of advanced control systems through model-based approaches. Researchers will extend diagnosability...

This three-year, $375,046 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to advance prescribed-time stabilization and robust safety techniques in control systems engineering applications. The project aims to develop time-varying feedback laws with gains that grow over time to achieve prescribed-time stabilization and...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $175,000 supports research at Wichita State University from June 2022 through January 2023 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The university will develop techniques to integrate security monitoring and detection mechanisms into real-time multicoored systems design. Specifically, the researchers will devise algorithms, scheduling models, and frameworks cognizant of real-time requirements; build design tools and...

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded Tufts University a $427,400 project grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant supports research to develop versatile legged robots for open-world human-robot interaction in mixed-initiative teams. The program aims to support and stimulate basic and applied research with potential to improve naval operations. This award will allow Tufts University researchers to advance...