Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Autonomous Sustainable Urban Systems (ATLAS)

规划资助：自主可持续城市系统工程研究中心（ATLAS）

• 批准号: 1937103
• 负责人: Mario Berges
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1937103&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Autonomous Sustainable Urban Systems (ATLAS) The proposed ERC on Autonomous susTainabLe urbAn Systems (ATLAS) will create a future where autonomous systems in a community work together to facilitate its sustainability and enhance its governance, thus significantly improving the quality of life of its residents. This ERC will address the grand challenge of significantly transforming the way we build and manage our urban environment and create Sustainable Cities and Communities, which is a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of the United Nations and aligns with the goals of many agencies including the National Academy of Engineering?s (NAE) Engineering Grand Challenges. Due to the complexity of the urban systems underpinning these challenges, this ERC will need to create fundamentally new approaches to integrate autonomous systems technologies and urban systems engineering (e.g., smart urban farming, autonomous net-zero energy communities, etc.) to improve social, economic and environmental sustainability goals with novel governance strategies that respect the community?s overall autonomy (e.g., by balancing commercial interests, privacy and governance implications). This paradigm-shifting set of solutions will require a convergent research approach that balances the issues around autonomous urban systems technologies; social, economic and environmental sustainability; and governance, ethics, and privacy. Similarly, it will combine expertise from multiple knowledge domains (e.g. science, engineering, philosophy, psychology), government institutions, industry stakeholders and, crucially, community associations to ensure their feasibility and applicability in practice. This ERC planning grant will assemble the right partners and research approaches to make this vision a reality, including key researchers at other universities so as to maximize the impact. To ensure that a diversity of voices and perspectives are included, we will utilize our long-standing work with Women and Diversity in Transportation Fellowships, CMU?s formal relationship with the Community College of Allegheny County and CMU College of Engineering?s relationship with Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The planning effort will provide a foundation for the academic community?s involvement in supporting and furthering NSF?s vision, mission, and goals for research programs for urban sustainability, and for collaboration in research and education programs, projects, and related activities.This planning grant will foster convergence by engaging participants from academia, government, and industry, across a range of disciplines including civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, public policy, systems engineering, economics, artificial intelligence, and social and decision sciences in a focused dialogue that integrates these communities to identify the greatest systems-level opportunities for maximizing the sustainability benefits and minimizing the consequences of integration of urban automation. Our ERC planning effort has two main objectives: (a) establish the partnerships required to form a diverse, trans-disciplinary and technically strong stakeholder community; and (b) identify and elaborate the main research thrusts and research questions in (and across) the domains of energy, transportation, and food with respect to the ATLAS vision. A convergent research approach to this problem, with a focus on testbeds and technology deployment will develop solutions have direct application to existing communities across the nation. A more systematic and detailed understanding of the role of autonomous systems for urban sustainability will also produce lessons that are applicable in other contexts where autonomy is becoming more prevalent (e.g., space exploration, ecology, etc.). Moreover, this improved understanding has the potential to directly improve equity and quality of life for all segments of the population.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

规划拨款：自主可持续城市系统工程研究中心（ATLAS） 拟议的自主可持续城市系统 ERC（ATLAS）将创造一个未来，社区中的自主系统共同努力促进其可持续性并加强其治理，从而显着改善其居民的生活质量。该 ERC 将解决重大挑战，即显着改变我们建设和管理城市环境的方式，并创建可持续城市和社区，这是联合国的可持续发展目标 (SDG)，并与包括国家环境保护局在内的许多机构的目标保持一致。工程院 (NAE) 工程重大挑战。由于支撑这些挑战的城市系统的复杂性，该 ERC 将需要创建全新的方法来整合自主系统技术和城市系统工程（例如智能城市农业、自主净零能源社区等），以改善社会、经济和环境可持续性目标以及尊重社区整体自主权的新颖治理策略（例如，通过平衡商业利益、隐私和治理影响）。这组范式转变的解决方案将需要一种融合的研究方法来平衡围绕自主城市系统技术的问题；社会、经济和环境的可持续性；以及治理、道德和隐私。同样，它将结合多个知识领域（例如科学、工程、哲学、心理学）、政府机构、行业利益相关者以及最重要的社区协会的专业知识，以确保其在实践中的可行性和适用性。 ERC 的这项规划拨款将汇集合适的合作伙伴和研究方法，包括其他大学的关键研究人员，以实现这一愿景，以最大限度地发挥影响力。为了确保包容多样性的声音和观点，我们将利用我们与女性和交通多样性奖学金的长期合作、卡内基梅隆大学与阿勒格尼县社区学院的正式关系以及卡内基梅隆大学工程学院与历史上的关系黑人学院和大学。规划工作将为学术界参与支持和推进 NSF 城市可持续发展研究计划的愿景、使命和目标以及研究和教育计划、项目和相关活动的合作奠定基础。规划拨款将通过吸引来自学术界、政府和工业界的参与者来促进融合，涉及土木和环境工程、电气和计算机工程、机械工程、公共政策、系统工程、经济学、人工智能以及社会和决策等一系列学科整合这些社区的重点对话中的科学确定最大的系统级机会，以最大限度地提高可持续发展效益并最大限度地减少城市自动化一体化的后果。我们的 ERC 规划工作有两个主要目标：(a) 建立形成多元化、跨学科且技术强大的利益相关者社区所需的伙伴关系； (b) 根据 ATLAS 愿景，确定并阐述能源、交通和食品领域（以及跨领域）的主要研究重点和研究问题。针对这个问题的集中研究方法，重点是测试平台和技术部署，将开发出可直接应用于全国现有社区的解决方案。对自治系统在城市可持续发展中的作用进行更系统和详细的了解也将产生适用于自治变得更加普遍的其他环境（例如太空探索、生态等）的经验教训。此外，这种加深的理解有可能直接改善各阶层人口的公平性和生活质量。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。