Project Grant N629092412006

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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $163,351 to the University of California, Irvine to develop techniques for efficiently and effectively detecting and removing defects in autonomous vehicle software through simulations. The project aims to generate driving scenarios likely to reveal errors, accurately consider driving context and traffic laws, determine if collisions are...

This $799,803 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of a new framework named CRASH (Challenging Reinforcement-Learning Based Adversarial Scenarios for Safety Hardening) to effectively stress test and improve the safety of autonomous vehicle software. The framework leverages multi-agent adversarial deep reinforcement learning to automatically generate realistic and challenging...

This $279,674 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of MELIOREM, an automated tool designed to enhance the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). The project aims to leverage high-performance computing infrastructure to conduct rigorous testing of AVs in simulated driving scenarios, identifying and addressing potential safety issues before they impact public...

This $500,000 project grant, awarded on January 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to address the urgent need for end-to-end safety in learning-enabled autonomous systems across various application scenarios, such as self-driving cars and urban air mobility. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SLES: GUARANTEED TUBES FOR SAFE LEARNING ACROSS AUTONOMY ARCHITECTURES,"...

This $235,187 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop principled algorithms and practical tools for systematically discovering and repairing unsafe behavior in multi-module autonomous vehicle systems. The key objectives are to: (1) create an automated method for constructing test scenarios that decouple high-level semantics and low-level details; (2) develop a search-based testing approach to efficiently...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $256,000 awarded on March 15, 2022 will fund Ladon Robotics LLC to develop autonomous, ocean-going cargo vessels powered by wind and solar energy under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The small business aims to integrate existing robotic and energy capture technologies with new wind/solar energy optimization software and autonomous contingency management systems. This has the potential to lower operating...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) provides $250,000.00 to the University of Texas at Austin to develop "SAFE RIDE STANDARDS FOR AUTONOMOUS CASUALTY TRANSPORT: INTERNAL ORGAN PROTECTION". The award period runs from March 13, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The project aims to establish safety standards and technologies for autonomous vehicles transporting injured...

The Synthetik Applied Technologies LLC project, funded through a $399,972 two-year Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program, aims to develop a new low-cost hyperspectral imaging module and distributed deep learning platform to combat seafood fraud and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. The SBIR program seeks to stimulate technological innovation to meet federal research needs and increase...

This $149,800 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, doing business as Blacksea Technologies, in developing technologies to help protect endangered marine mammals from ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. Through its Small Business Innovation Research Program, NOAA aims to stimulate technological solutions to federal research needs. Under this award beginning September 2021 and set to conclude in...