The U.S. Air Force awarded a $171,695 Project Grant to the University of Florida (UF) under the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The grant, awarded on September 18, 2024 with a completion date of August 31, 2025, will support an "Adaptive Optimal Control Approach for Multi-Agent Autonomy in Aerospace Applications." As a leading research university with expertise in aerospace engineering, defense...
The University of Florida was awarded a $150,000 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop a robotic platform for testing and validating heterogeneous autonomous systems in contested environments. The platform will allow researchers to test autonomous vehicles and technologies under realistic conditions simulating threats such as jamming and cyber attacks. Testing in a...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to George Washington University in the amount of $399,998 supports research aimed at designing theories and algorithms for scalable multi-agent planning and control to enable safe and robust urban air mobility (UAM) operations using electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The key technical objectives of the project include: 1) developing safety and robustness techniques for single-agent...
The Department of Defense awarded a $366,420 Project Grant under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) to the University of Arizona to acquire a trustworthy intelligent multi-domain transportation testbed for research in a contested environment. The award, which runs from August 2024 to August 2025, will enable the university to develop and deploy an advanced research testbed to support scientific investigations across domains relevant to...
The University of North Texas received a $211,786 Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to develop self-powered wireless sensors and interfaces for unmanned aerial vehicles. The grant was awarded on May 5, 2021 under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program of the Defense Department's CFDA #12.630, which supports fundamental research with potential to contribute technologies for...
The Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Services awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant supports the "On-the-Fly Flight Test Maneuver Optimization and Nonlinear Modeling of Hypersonic Systems" project conducted by the University's Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. The grant funding will enable basic scientific research activities related to improving Army programs...
The University of Florida received a $439,210 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop and validate instrumentation for autonomous multi-agent systems operating in contested outdoor environments. The grant was awarded on April 1, 2021 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) with a completion date of September 30, 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force...
This $283,377 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Air Force under the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). The grant was awarded to the University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research on September 11, 2024 for a technical proposal titled "Feedback-Based Deep Learning for Uncertain Dynamical Systems" in response to Research Area 17 under Broad Agency Announcement FA8651-22-S-0001. The...
The University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research received a $190,678 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports the development of "ENHANCED CAPABILITIES AND COLLABORATIVE INTEGRATION FOR A VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION INSTRUMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS IN OUTDOOR CONTESTED ENVIRONMENTS." This research aims to maintain technological superiority in areas relevant to...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $201,023 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) on March 11, 2024. The funding supports research on the autonomous navigation of drones and robots in indoor and outdoor cluttered environments. The work aims to develop new capabilities and prevent technological surprise in areas relevant to Air Force needs, such as computer science, aerospace systems, and related...