Project Grant N629092512046

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 three-year, $309,811 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology to develop techniques for improving the resilience of vision-guided unmanned aerial vehicles and other mobile robotic technologies against cyberattacks. The research aims to advance a framework for detecting and responding to stealthy attacks that simultaneously target mission planning, control, perception,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with CFDA number 47.070, provides $453,372 to Syracuse University to develop autonomous operations of multi-UAV uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) for monitoring and tracking natural disaster events like wildfires and flooding. The key research goals are to design and implement robust motion estimation and control schemes that enable a team of UAVs to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083), provides $271,129 to support research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to develop a new method for multi-agent control of robotic systems. The research focuses on incorporating density information to optimize transport-based multi-agent exploration and maximize efficiency for applications such as wildlife monitoring,...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $322,886 supports the establishment of a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates site at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University focused on networking research for drone swarms in the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Over three years, the project will engage eight undergraduate students per summer in research activities under the guidance of experienced mentors. Key areas of focus include dynamic network management, network...

This $1,500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) supports the University of Southern California's research on safe multi-agent systems using a neurosymbolic approach. The project aims to develop new theories and algorithms for the design of safe learning-enabled multi-agent systems, with applications in areas like wildfire prevention using drone swarms and semi-automated...

This $274,354 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Nevada, Reno to develop techniques for improving the resilience of vision-guided unmanned aerial vehicles and other autonomous systems against cyberattacks. The grant is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research. Specifically, the research aims to advance an observability analysis framework for detecting and responding to stealthy...

This three-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research at Syracuse University to develop robust and decentralized decision-making policies for unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled wireless networks. Specifically, the researchers will design intelligent algorithms to jointly address mobility, connectivity, and resource management...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $477,845 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Wisconsin System to support research on enhancing the operation of autonomous vehicle (AV) swarms in diverse traffic environments. The key objectives are to: 1) examine the "tragedy of the commons" phenomenon where AVs may cause traffic disruption despite individual AV performance, and 2) incorporate "emergent cooperative behavior" like human...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $250,000 will fund research at the University of Southern California to develop a proof-of-concept prototype for an immersive and interactive three-dimensional display using swarms of flying light specks (FLS). The prototype will investigate techniques and algorithms to enable synchronized swarms of micro-drone FLS to render objects in a specified 3D volume that a user can touch and manipulate. Known as FLS-Matter, the project will create 2D...