Project Grant N000142412332

The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,558 Project Grant to Ocean Motion Technologies Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant supports the company's efforts to leverage machine learning techniques to optimize the efficiency and energy capture of ocean-based renewable power generation. Specifically, the company will utilize reinforcement learning to develop an advanced control model that adjusts wave energy capture device hardware based...

This $634,514 National Science Foundation Engineering grant funds research at Florida Atlantic University from February 2022 to January 2027. The university will develop physics-reinforced data-driven prognostics and co-design tools to advance monitoring and design of marine hydrokinetic energy systems such as marine current turbines and wave energy converters. Researchers will address data scarcity, quality, and concept drift challenges through knowledge transfer and graph learning models...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research, under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), provides $150,000.00 to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to conduct research on "MULTI-UUV COORDINATION VIA UNDERWATER WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (UWOC) AND DEEP RL-BASED CONTROL TUNING". The research project aims to develop new capabilities in underwater wireless optical communications and advanced control systems for...

The U.S. Office of Naval Research awarded a $131,445 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on March 1, 2024 under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant will support the development of a GPU cluster to enable physics-informed machine learning for underwater robot design. The project aims to advance capabilities in areas such as autonomous navigation, object detection, and environmental perception for naval applications. UCSD will...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to examine the hydrodynamics of aquatic robots locomoting in formations and identify collective behaviors that emerge from their flow-mediated interactions. The $429,499 award, effective August 1, 2024 through November 30, 2027, aims to obtain an in-depth understanding of many-body hydrodynamic interactions in the collective motion of robotic swimmers and surfers at high Reynolds...

Geometric Data Analytics Inc. received a $299,804 project grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop artificial intelligence capabilities that improve modeling of complex ocean dynamics and assist in logistical management and planning of uncrewed deployment campaigns. Specifically, the awardee will enhance their Float Field Geometric Health software to better predict future positions of floating sensor...

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded a $999,296 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to develop an autonomy testbed for heterogeneous unmanned vehicle systems (UVX) teams. The grant is funded through the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which supports research with potential to improve naval operations and train future researchers. Under the one-year award beginning...

This $277,643 federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography in conducting machine learning and artificial intelligence research for acoustic environmental characterization and sound propagation physics analysis. The research aims to advance naval capabilities through improved understanding of oceanic environments...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $195,492 to Louisiana State University (LSU) over a 5-year period from June 2024 to May 2029. The overarching goal of this project is to design autonomous underwater vehicle-manipulator systems (UVMS) that are robust and reliable in responding to unforeseen events, as observed through dynamic vision sensors. The key objectives are to: 1) create novel physics-based and data-driven dynamic models with...

The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology was awarded a $306,397 Project Grant from the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to advance autonomous capabilities for unmanned surface vehicles through distributional reinforcement learning. The five-year grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will support research and development to enhance the autonomy of unmanned maritime systems, potentially improving naval operations. The research...