Project Grant N000142312661

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 $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of collision regulations-aware autonomy systems and software for safe interactions between crewed and uncrewed vessels. Funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the awardee will design and simulate autonomous systems capable of complying with International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea. This includes maintaining compliance within documented operating conditions. The...

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded Brown University a $6,719,976 project grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to establish a unifying artificial intelligence model for generally-capable robots. The four-year award beginning August 1, 2022 will support Brown University's development of an AI model to improve naval operations by training and motivating future technologies with potential for superiority. The grant...

The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $715,490 Cooperative Agreement under the Ocean Exploration program (CFDA 11.011) to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for the period of Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2025. The project aims to develop artificial intelligence-integrated control algorithms and machine learning models to enable large-scale deployments of uncrewed underwater vehicles and expanded biological observations in the...

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....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $222,600 Project Grant to Harvey Mudd College under the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: Assistive Intelligence for Cooperative Robot and Inspector Survey of Infrastructure Systems (AI-CRISIS)", will develop and implement a cooperative robot-inspector system with assistive intelligence to enable faster, cheaper,...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at the University of Michigan to develop new capabilities for marine robotic systems to autonomously map, visualize, and navigate underwater environments. The project will leverage innovative machine learning methods to fuse acoustic and visual data from the robots, enabling improved mapping and localization in...

This $190,504 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of novel methodologies for multi-robot coordination grounded in human collaboration. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the awardee Brown University will create an online crowdsourcing application to collect data on how distributed human teams coordinate to complete tightly coupled tasks when constrained to limited information and actions similar to robots....

The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $505,332 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The award, titled "A Computational and Physical Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Robotics Systems with Embodies Intelligence: From Cobotics Exoskeletons to Flying Robots", will fund research to develop advanced...

The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $1,224,387 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to Concept To Capability Research LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in La Mesa, California. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, supports the development of algorithms for seabed mapping and characterization using artificial intelligence and deep machine learning. The research aims to enhance naval operational...