Project Grant R41AG050382

This Project Grant award of $174,988 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will support the development of a millimeter-wavelength (mmWave) rapid scan image phased array radar technology demonstrator unit. The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of a future ground-based, mobile phased array cloud radar system that could provide high-resolution measurements of cloud processes, which are crucial for understanding the Earth's climate and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will fund the design, implementation, and evaluation of a practical electromagnetic (EM) sensing system called EMRADAR. This system will enable research on EM side-channel attacks and defenses for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in realistic environments. The $197,463 award from the NSF's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will...

This $1,200,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Illinois to establish millimeter wave (mmWave) radar as a first-class perception and control tool for small autonomous robots and drones. The project aims to develop new radar-based localization, mapping, and semantic scene understanding capabilities that can operate on the limited onboard compute of small robots...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 SBIR Phase I project grant to Agile RF Systems LLC to develop and demonstrate a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar processing module for significantly enhanced detection of severe weather events such as tornadoes, hail, and wind shear. During the 9-month project, the company will develop and simulate MIMO radar algorithms, implement them in an existing four-channel software defined radar, and compare the MIMO performance to single input...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $274,059 provides funding for Solopulse Corporation to develop a single-pulse radio frequency software suite to improve safety for advanced driver assistance systems. The award falls under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), which seeks to advance research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies and solutions to national challenges. Specifically, the awardee will develop and test software to...

This $294,158 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) supports the development of an at-home, wearable sensor-based balance training system for older adults. The primary deliverable is a gamified weight-shifting balance game that integrates musical biofeedback—a novel approach that translates biological sensor data into...

This $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop a terahertz radar imaging transceiver to improve concealed threat detection for law enforcement and event venue security. The $274,927 award from the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will support the design, implementation, fabrication, and testing of a terahertz radar transceiver, a critical component for a portable, discreet security screening...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $676,546 Project Grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to acquire a Ka-band profiling radar for the university's Mobile Atmospheric Profiling Network (MAPNET) facility. This state-of-the-art radar will enhance researchers' ability to study a variety of atmospheric processes, including cool season stratocumulus clouds, convective systems, cloud electrification, hurricane...

This three-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research comparing in-situ and polarimetric radar hail observations. Colorado State University will analyze existing dual-polarimetric radar and storm-penetrating aircraft data to improve estimates of hail properties from radar signatures. Researchers will process hydrometeor images and compute polarimetric radar signatures using...