Planning Grant: I/UCRC Center for UAS Site Addition (Virginia Tech)

规划拨款：I/UCRC 无人机站点增建中心（弗吉尼亚理工大学）

• 批准号: 1464618
• 负责人: Craig Woolsey
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-15 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1464618&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; UCRC; Center; UAS

The Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS), an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) established by Brigham Young University and the University of Colorado in 2012, provides innovative solutions to key technical challenges facing the UAS industry and trains a diverse, highly qualified cadre of leaders for this emerging field. In seeking to join the C-UAS, as a third university site, Virginia Tech brings expertise in a variety of critical and complementary research areas. Virginia Tech also leads one of six FAA-designated unmanned aircraft system test sites, which presents an opportunity for C-UAS partners to support the FAA's regulatory policy development efforts while establishing a foothold in emerging commercial markets. This planning grant supports Virginia Tech's effort to develop a viable, self-sustaining Site Addition to the C-UAS.The specific research agenda to be addressed within this C-UAS Site Addition will ultimately be determined by the Center's Industry Advisory Board (IAB), including new representatives who commit to join the Center along with Virginia Tech. Likely focus areas for the expanded C-UAS research program include advanced flight control (e.g., methods to construct robust, secure, and mathematically certified control algorithms), agriculture (e.g., methods to monitor plant pathogen transport), machine vision and machine learning (e.g., software for real-time, on-board intelligent image processing), multiphysics design optimization (e.g., aircraft design optimization tools that incorporate unsteady fluid/structure interaction), safety and airworthiness (e.g., reliability prediction methods that incorporate imprecise uncertainties intrinsic to small UAS), and wireless communications (e.g., the use of software defined radio and intelligent communication protocols that adapt the information flow to the environmental conditions). Proposals for specific research tasks will be developed in coordination with prospective industry and government partners to ensure that those partners are fully engaged in the process and committed to the research program.

无人机系统中心 (C-UAS) 是杨百翰大学和科罗拉多大学于 2012 年建立的产学合作研究中心 (I/UCRC)，为无人机行业和列车面临的关键技术挑战提供创新解决方案这个新兴领域拥有一支多元化、高素质的领导干部队伍。在寻求加入 C-UAS 时，作为第三个大学站点，弗吉尼亚理工大学带来了各种关键和互补研究领域的专业知识。弗吉尼亚理工大学还领导着美国联邦航空局指定的六个无人机系统测试场之一，这为 C-UAS 合作伙伴提供了一个机会，支持美国联邦航空局的监管政策制定工作，同时在新兴商业市场建立立足点。这笔规划拨款支持弗吉尼亚理工大学为 C-UAS 开发可行的、自我维持的站点添加的努力。该 C-UAS 站点添加中要解决的具体研究议程最终将由该中心的行业咨询委员会 (IAB) 确定，包括承诺与弗吉尼亚理工大学一起加入该中心的新代表。扩大的 C-UAS 研究计划可能的重点领域包括先进的飞行控制（例如，构建稳健、安全和经过数学认证的控制算法的方法）、农业（例如，监测植物病原体传输的方法）、机器视觉和机器学习（例如，用于实时机载智能图像处理的软件）、多物理场设计优化（例如，结合非定常流体/结构相互作用的飞机设计优化工具）、安全性和适航性（例如，可靠性）预测方法（包含小型无人机固有的不精确不确定性）和无线通信（例如，使用软件定义的无线电和智能通信协议，使信息流适应环境条件）。将与潜在的行业和政府合作伙伴协调制定具体研究任务的提案，以确保这些合作伙伴充分参与该过程并致力于研究计划。