REU Site: Cognitive and Autonomous Test (CAT) Vehicle

REU 站点：认知和自主测试 (CAT) 车辆

• 批准号: 1262960
• 负责人: Jonathan Sprinkle
• 金额: $ 35.99万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262960&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Cognitive; Autonomous; Test; REU; Site; Cognitive; Autonomous; Test

This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program. The motivation for this project is to engage students with the wide range of research topics and applications related to autonomous ground vehicles. The REU Site provides research experience for 10 students for 10 weeks in the summer for 3 years. The participants are engaged in collaborative work with graduate students doing research in the fields of autonomous systems and cognitive radio. The project approach utilizes a spiral development process for participant projects, which enables participants to see how a research problem can be decomposed, and also enables each year of the project to build upon previous projects. The process focuses on requirements verification and testing, and thus enables a safe interaction with the Cognitive and Autonomous Test Vehicle (CAT Vehicle). The CAT Vehicle is a full-sized Ford Escape robotic car that employs various sensors that can be used to make the car drive autonomously, or that can be used when the car is under human control to test new techniques or sensing algorithms. Participants are expected to gain experience and produce research results and publications in areas related to cognitive radio, wireless communications, autonomous control systems, and model-based design, among others.The REU Site will have a significant impact on the participating students who will gain experience in writing academic publications, preparing and giving presentation, and in articulating the story of their compelling research problem and its solution. The project is expected to produce artifacts that will increase visibility of the performed work, including a video describing their project journey that lends itself to broad dissemination of a participant's contribution once they return to their home institution. Participants gain expertise in what it means to design components of a system as pervasive as an automobile. Such experience and motivation is needed for participants to later go on to explore problems in the smart grid, next-generation wireless networks, alternative energy, and other issues that have impact on a societal-scale. The REU Site project web site (http://reu.ece.arizona.edu/) provides additional information.

该站点由国防部与NSF REU计划合作共同资助。该项目的动机是吸引学生与自动地面车辆有关的广泛研究主题和应用。 REU网站在夏季10周内为10个学生提供研究经验，持续3年。参与者与在自主系统和认知无线电领域进行研究的研究生进行合作工作。该项目方法利用参与者项目的螺旋发展过程，这使参与者能够查看如何分解研究问题，并使项目的每一年都可以在先前的项目上建立。该过程的重点是需求验证和测试，因此可以与认知和自主测试工具（CAT车辆）进行安全互动。猫车是一款全尺寸的福特逃脱机器人汽车，采用各种传感器，可用于自动使汽车驱动器，或者当汽车受到人体控制以测试新技术或传感算法时可以使用。期望参与者在与认知无线电，无线通信，自主控制系统和基于模型的设计相关的领域中获得研究结果和出版物。预计该项目将产生工件，以提高执行作品的可见性，包括一个描述其项目之旅的视频，该视频一旦返回家庭机构，就可以广泛传播参与者的贡献。参与者在设计系统上像汽车一样普遍的系统组件的含义方面获得了专业知识。需要这种经验和动力才能让参与者以后继续探索智能电网，下一代无线网络，替代能源以及对社会规模影响的其他问题的问题。 REU网站项目网站（http://reu.ece.arizona.edu/）提供了其他信息。