Project Grant N629091612243

OAM Photonics LLC will develop a high-performance, compact, and lightweight 3D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor under a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The LIDAR sensor aims to enable more affordable drone-based, high-precision mapping applications by leveraging coherent LIDAR detection and silicon photonics technology in an innovative design. The compact form factor sensor...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Pirvision Lens LLC supports research and development activities for their proprietary "ActiveLens" technology. The goal is to enhance passive infrared (PIR) motion sensors by enabling improved stationary occupancy detection, human signal differentiation, occupancy counting, and activity identification capabilities. The project will develop...

This $174,660 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the Rochester Institute of Technology to develop full automation capabilities for bird-sized unmanned aerial vehicles operating in unknown, cluttered indoor environments using only an RGB-D camera for visual perception. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing and information sciences, this...

This $255,806 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of programmable three-dimensional light curtains by Phlux Technologies, Inc. to enhance human-robot collaboration. Under the Engineering (47.041) program, Phlux will commercialize 3D light curtain safety sensors that can adaptively program specific 3D safety boundaries around robots and humans. This removes complex 3D processing and instead allows simple detection similar to existing 2D safety sensors. Research will...

The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $624,379 Project Grant under the NEI Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867) to The Johns Hopkins University to develop an objective tool for evaluating the visual accessibility of indoor spaces. The project aims to create a smartphone app that can 1) visualize environments for specified levels of vision impairment, 2) identify hazardous features, and 3) generate visibility metrics to quantify object visibility. The app will be validated...

The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research awarded Colorado State University a $201,420 Project Grant under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to develop augmented reality techniques for joint terminal attack controllers and battlefield readiness from September 2021 to September 2023. The grant funding will support Colorado State University's research efforts to improve naval operations through the creation of augmented reality multi-modal interaction...

This Project Grant award, valued at $400,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports the development of innovative "snapshot computational imaging" systems that leverage recent advances in metaoptics, or optical devices using sub-wavelength nano-structures, to capture multidimensional information about light interactions with the world. The key objectives of this...

This $499,495 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of computational imaging solutions to facilitate underwater robotic tasks through September 2024. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the grantee George Mason University will develop a novel angularly sampled imaging system and algorithms to analyze nonlinear light transport in water, model underwater surface reflectance, and reconstruct three-dimensional...

This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of innovative snapshot computational imaging systems that leverage metaoptics technology. The project, led by Dartmouth College, aims to create computational camera simulators capable of modeling the complex interactions of light across various dimensions, and to leverage these tools to design and build...

The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $881,796 Project Grant (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to Siloam Vision, Inc. to develop and commercialize two advanced, laser-based, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled retinal imaging systems. The goal is to address the unmet need for affordable, non-invasive pediatric retinal imaging to detect and diagnose retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a leading cause of child blindness. The key innovations include an ultrawide-field (up to 165 degrees) camera...