University of South Florida Planning Grant: I/UCRC for iPERFORM Center for Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human Performance

南佛罗里达大学规划拨款：I/UCRC 的 iPERFORM 辅助技术中心以提高人类表现

• 批准号: 1650545
• 负责人: Stephanie Carey
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-15 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1650545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; South; Florida; Planning; Grant

The University of South Florida's, Center for Assistive, Rehabilitation & Robotics Technologies (CARRT) will increase the capacity of engineers, researchers and practitioners in the assistive technology and human performance field by becoming a Site in the existing NSF IUCRC iPERFORM Center for Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human Performance. The iPerform Center currently includes the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and at Dallas (UTD). CARRT combines research, education and service to improve human performance, including the capabilities of individuals with a disability or of advanced age. Innovations such as virtual reality for job training, intelligent wheelchairs and powered mobility devices, adaptive driving simulators, training systems for rehabilitation after a stroke, and a mobile app to help with decisions about a prosthesis will be explored with industrial partners. USF will also work with the Tampa VA, the Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Museum of Science and Industry, Girls Scouts Minds for Design Camp and Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in order to promote science, engineering and entrepreneurship to a broad audience. Real world problems associated with assistive technologies and enhancing human performance will be integrated into courses such as Capstone Senior Design, Human Factors, Rehabilitation Engineering, Haptics and Bioastronautics motivating future scientists and engineers in the field. USF's student chapters such as the Biomedical Engineering Society will also help in the development and implementation of the research projects related to the goals of the iPERFORM Center.The objective of this planning grant is to establish the University of South Florida (USF) as a Site addition to the existing iPERFORM Center. USF's CARRT has expertise in integrating research, education and service with a strong record of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborative research that has led to the development of novel assistive, rehabilitation, wearable and robotics technologies. USF's team has expertise in the human testing of assistive technologies that is necessary to improve designs and make them commercially viable. USF has several motion capture systems including two that are implemented into virtual reality systems that allow for testing in realistic environments safely while providing controlled and repeatable testing protocols. This allows for quantitative data that can improve assistive technologies and prepare them for market necessary to attract industry partners. USF's capabilities are synergistic to the focus and goals of the existing NSF IUCRC iPERFORM Center that include attracting support towards the commercialization of assistive technologies and promoting innovation in academia that is driven by customer and industrial needs. Through USF CARRT's integrated holistic model in which engineers and scientists work with clinicians, rehabilitation practitioners and artists, a unique structure for research and development will strengthen the iPERFORM Center.

南佛罗里达大学，辅助，康复与机器人技术中心（CARRT）将通过成为现有NSF IUCRC IUCRC IPRC IPRForm Formform Formform Formform Formform Formform中心的地点，以提高工程师，研究人员和从业人员的能力，以增强人类绩效。 IPerform中心目前包括德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校（UTA）和达拉斯（UTD）。 Carrt结合了研究，教育和服务以提高人类绩效，包括残疾人或高龄的人的能力。工业合作伙伴将探索诸如用于工作培训的虚拟现实，诸如用于工作培训的虚拟现实，智能轮椅和动力移动设备，自适应驾驶模拟器，中风后康复的培训系统以及一个移动应用程序，以帮助对假体的决策进行决定。 USF还将与坦帕VA，佛罗里达职业康复部，科学和工业博物馆，设计营的女孩童子军思想以及佛罗里达 - 乔治亚 - 乔治亚·斯托克斯联盟的少数派参与，以促进广泛的受众群体的科学，工程和企业家。与辅助技术和增强人类绩效相关的现实世界问题将纳入诸如Capstone高级设计，人为因素，康复工程，触觉和生物焦点的课程，以激励该领域的未来科学家和工程师。 USF的学生章节（例如生物医学工程协会）还将有助于开发和实施与IPerform Center目标有关的研究项目。该计划赠款的目标是建立南佛罗里达大学（USF）作为现有IPERFORM中心的地点。 USF的Carrt在将研究，教育和服务与跨学科和机构间合作研究的良好记录相结合方面具有专业知识，这导致了新颖的辅助，康复，可穿戴和机器人技术的发展。 USF的团队在辅助技术的人体测试方面具有专业知识，这是改善设计并使其在商业上可行的必要条件。 USF有几个运动捕获系统，其中包括两个实施到虚拟现实系统中，这些系统允许在现实环境中安全地进行测试，同时提供受控且可重复的测试协议。这允许进行定量数据，可以改善辅助技术并为吸引行业合作伙伴所必需的市场做好准备。 USF的功能与现有的NSF IUCRC IPerform中心的重点和目标是协同的，其中包括吸引对辅助技术的商业化以及促进由客户和工业需求驱动的学术界创新的支持。通过USF Carrt的整体整体模型，工程师和科学家与临床医生，康复从业人员和艺术家合作，研究和发展的独特结构将增强IPerform Center。