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、康复和机器人技术中心 (CARRT) 将成为现有 NSF IUCCRC iPERFORM 辅助技术中心的一个站点，从而提高辅助技术和人类表现领域的工程师、研究人员和从业人员的能力提高人类绩效。 iPerform 中心目前包括德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校 (UTA) 和达拉斯分校 (UTD)。 CARRT 将研究、教育和服务结合起来，以提高人类表现，包括残疾人或高龄人士的能力。将与工业合作伙伴共同探索用于职业培训的虚拟现实、智能轮椅和电动移动设备、自适应驾驶模拟器、中风后康复训练系统以及帮助做出假肢决策的移动应用程序等创新。南佛罗里达大学还将与坦帕退伍军人管理局、佛罗里达州职业康复部门、科学与工业博物馆、女童子军设计营和佛罗里达州-佐治亚州路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟合作，以促进科学、工程和创业精神的发展广泛的受众。与辅助技术和提高人类表现相关的现实世界问题将被纳入 Capstone 高级设计、人为因素、康复工程、触觉和生物航天等课程中，以激励该领域的未来科学家和工程师。南佛罗里达大学的学生分会，例如生物医学工程学会，也将帮助开发和实施与 iPERFORM 中心目标相关的研究项目。这项规划拨款的目标是将南佛罗里达大学 (USF) 建立为一个站点除了现有的 iPERFORM 中心之外。南佛罗里达大学 CARRT 拥有整合研究、教育和服务的专业知识，在跨学科和机构间合作研究方面拥有良好的记录，这些研究促进了新型辅助、康复、可穿戴和机器人技术的发展。南佛罗里达大学的团队拥有辅助技术人体测试方面的专业知识，这对于改进设计并使其在商业上可行是必要的。 USF 拥有多个动作捕捉系统，其中两个被实施到虚拟现实系统中，允许在现实环境中安全地进行测试，同时提供受控和可重复的测试协议。这提供了定量数据，可以改进辅助技术，并为吸引行业合作伙伴所需的市场做好准备。 USF 的能力与现有 NSF IUCCRC iPERFORM 中心的重点和目标具有协同作用，包括吸引对辅助技术商业化的支持，以及促进由客户和行业需求驱动的学术界创新。通过 USF CARRT 的综合整体模型，工程师和科学家与临床医生、康复从业者和艺术家合作，独特的研发结构将加强 iPERFORM 中心。