IUCRC Phase I Texas A&M University: Center for Autonomous Air Mobility and Sensing (CAAMS)

IUCRC 第一阶段德克萨斯 A

• 批准号: 2137265
• 负责人: John Valasek
• 金额: $ 47.12万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-15 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137265&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Phase; Texas; A& University

The world’s aviation industry is moving towards autonomous air mobility and sensing, where new developments in artificial intelligence, energy systems, aerodynamics, structures and materials, advanced manufacturing, and multidisciplinary design are enabling new air vehicle concepts and new ways of using aviation in the daily transport of information, people, and cargo. The Center for Autonomous Air Mobility and Sensing (CAAMS) will produce new fundamental engineering knowledge, will develop new technologies, and will train a new workforce needed by pooling the technical know-how of America’s leading engineering research universities with innovative companies ranging from startups to long-established leaders in the aerospace industry.CAAMS research focuses on improving air vehicle performance, sustainability, safety systems, manufacturability, and reliability by integrating research in traditional aerospace fields such as control, aerodynamics, structures and materials, communication, and energy storage with new disciplines including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics. Texas A&M University expertise will address integrated systems aspects (design, sensor integration and fusion, control), cybersecure air vehicles, validation & verification, and disturbance rejecting vertical flight. Unique facilities for research synergy are the 2,000 acre RELLIS Integrated Proving Ground of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Lone Star Test Site, and the Disaster City training and test facility. Autonomous air mobility and sensing includes a broad range of vehicle concepts, integrated subsystems, supporting infrastructure, traffic management tools, and applications that exploit increasingly autonomous capabilities in aviation. These autonomous systems have the potential to improve safety and reliability, reduce costs, and enable new missions of national and global importance. The global market for autonomous aircraft is expected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2040, and CAAMS will be a key asset in enhancing US competitiveness. Center research will support dozens of students every year, giving them hands-on experience with advanced autonomous systems and direct understanding of industry perspectives and needs.Center outcomes will be broadly disseminated through archival publications, presentations at engineering and computer science conferences, and technical interchanges with aviation industry members. A single center-wide data repository will be established by the lead site with a password-protected web portal that can be accessed by all center industry members. Project data will be made available to center members annually and will be made available upon request to the public two years after the center fiscal year has ended.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.

世界航空业正在朝着自主空中机动和传感方向发展，其中人工智能、能源系统、空气动力学、结构和材料、先进制造和多学科设计的新发展正在实现新的飞行器概念和日常使用航空的新方式自主空中机动和传感中心（CAAMS）将产生新的基础工程知识，开发新技术，并通过汇集美国领先工程技术知识来培训所需的新劳动力。研究型大学与航空航天行业的初创公司和老牌领导者等创新公司合作。CAAMS的研究重点是通过整合控制、空气动力学、结构和材料等传统航空航天领域的研究来提高飞行器性能、可持续性、安全系统、可制造性和可靠性、通信和能源存储以及人工智能、机器学习和机器人等新学科的专业知识将解决集成系统方面（设计、传感器集成和融合、控制）、网络安全飞行器、验证和验证、独特的研究协同设施包括联邦航空管理局 (FAA) 孤星测试场的 2,000 英亩 RELLIS 综合试验场，以及灾难城训练和测试设施，其中包括广泛的自主空中机动和传感设施。车辆概念、集成子系统、支持基础设施、交通管理工具和利用航空领域日益自主能力的应用程序，这些自主系统有潜力提高安全性和可靠性，降低成本，并实现国家和全球的新任务。到 2040 年，全球自动驾驶飞机市场预计将达到 1.5 万亿美元，CAAMS 将成为增强美国竞争力的关键资产。该中心的研究每年将为数十名学生提供支持，为他们提供先进自动驾驶系统的实践经验。直接了解行业观点和需求。中心成果将通过档案出版物、工程和计算机科学会议上的演示以及与航空业成员的技术交流来广泛传播。牵头站点将与航空业成员建立一个单一的中心范围的数据存储库。所有中心行业成员都可以访问的受密码保护的门户网站 每年将向中心成员提供项目数据，并将在中心财政年度结束后两年后根据要求向公众提供。该奖项反映了 NSF 的贡献。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。