Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)

面向未来无线连接的电磁材料设计和制造的数字化转型 (DREAM)

• 批准号: EP/X02542X/1
• 负责人: Y Hao
• 金额: $ 328.72万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX02542X%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Transformation; Electromagnetic; Material; Design

BEIS recently launched the Innovation Strategy, which the Government will establish 'innovation missions' seeking to address global and UK challenges through innovation. The Government wants to focus on exploiting seven technology areas where the UK has global competitive strengths. The proposed research covers four out of seven areas including: Advanced materials and manufacturing; AI, digital and advanced computing; electronics, photonics, and quantum; and robotics and smart machines.Together with QinetiQ, QMUL have developed a radically broad but new concept as "software defined materials (SDMs)", for which properties can be modified by simply uploading and updating computer software. The impact of SDMs is huge and it leads to tight integration of sensing, actuation, and computation that biological systems exhibit to achieve shape and appearance changes, and tactile sensing at very high dynamic range (like birds in flight). The vision of DREAM Partnership is therefore to unlock fundamental research opportunities promised by SDMs through digital transformation which are centered on design and manufacturing of novel electromagnetic materials for the automation and reconfigurability of future wireless systems.The DREAM Partnership will provide added value to both organisations, including:-Benefits for QinetiQ: Refresh of their technology portfolio using state-of-the-art materials and devices; securing new business by enhancement of the applications in wireless communications; greater international competitiveness through innovation insertion into systems; co-development of IP for enduring benefits in multiple markets.Benefits for QMUL: Stronger and more engaged industrial partnerships; enhanced supervision by using external specialists from QinetiQ; Potential licensing income through innovation; Enhanced knowledge transfer and an applications centric focus aligned to UK industry requirements.Benefits for UK:Gain a foothold in the marketplace with a new technology; Establish a large supply chain through QinetiQ; Access export markets through new products with routes to markets established via QinetiQ and position the UK as a leader in a key growth sector to compete with overseas incumbents.QMUL has agreed a property deal with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) that paves the way for the development of a Whitechapel Life Sciences Cluster in East London, a truly inclusive environment with culture diversity. We envisage that this new space development will house a number of cross-faculty research centres including the Centre of the Internet of Medical Things, which aligns strongly to areas of existing strength in the DREAM partnership. QMUL was one of the first universities to offer degree-level apprenticeships. We have been awarded £28m to lead an Institute of Technology offering degree-level apprenticeships in data-science and engineering with over 30 industrial partners. This provides QinetiQ a ready framework to trial our pilot with people from non-academic routes. QMUL has recently established the Institute for the Digital Environment, investing £3m to establish a University Enterprise Zone incubating digital-health businesses. This provides the space and connectivity with QinetiQ, and offers a critical-mass to test our approach. We will invest a significant of time and effort on developing a body of innovative work on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and resposnsible research and innnovation (RRI), particularly from safe AI and digital manufacturing impact on future workforce linking with QinetiQ ethics and code-of-conduct approaches. Finally, The DREAM Partnership will provide UK the opportunity not only to sustain this talented group with its legacy of more than 50 years of antenna and electromagnetics research innovation, but also to develop technologies relevant to wireless communications and and resilient infrastructures, which are beneficial to all citizens in the UK.

Beis最近启动了创新战略，政府将建立“创新任务”，试图通过创新解决全球和英国的挑战。政府希望专注于利用英国具有全球竞争优势的七个技术领域。拟议的研究涵盖了七个领域中的四个，包括：高级材料和制造； AI，数字和高级计算；电子，光子学和量子； Qmul与Qinetiq一起使用了机器人和智能机器。QMUL开发了一个宽广但新的概念，即“软件定义的材料（SDMS）”，可以通过简单地上传和更新计算机软件来修改属性。 SDM的影响很大，这会导致生物系统所表现出的感应，驱动和计算的紧密整合，以实现形状和外观变化，并在非常高的动态范围内（例如飞行中的鸟类）的触觉灵敏度。 The vision of DREAM Partnership is therefore to unlock fundamental research opportunities promised by SDMs through digital transformation which are centered on design and manufacturing of novel electronic materials for the automation and reconfigurability of future wireless systems.The DREAM Partnership will provide added value to both organisations, including:-Benefits for QinetiQ: Refresh of their technology portfolio using state-of-the-art materials and devices;通过增强无线通信中的应用程序来确保新业务；通过创新插入系统，更大的国际竞争力； IP共同开发以在多个市场中持久收益。通过使用Qinetiq的外部专家来增强监督；通过创新获得潜在的许可收入；增强的知识转移和以英国行业需求保持一致的以应用为中心的专注。通过Qinetiq建立大型供应链；通过新产品访问出口市场，该产品通过Qinetiq建立的市场路线，并将英国定位为与海外现任者竞争的主要增长部门的领导者。QMUL已同意与健康和社会护理部（DHSC）的房地产协议（DHSC）达成了一项财产协议，为在伦敦的East Life Sciences的发展中铺平了道路，以与伦敦的发展融合了伦敦的真正有多样性的环境。我们羡慕这种新的空间开发将容纳许多跨教师研究中心，包括医学事物的中心，这与梦境合作伙伴关系中现有实力的领域密切相符。 Qmul是最早提供学位学徒制的大学之一。我们已获得2800万英镑的奖励，以领导一家技术科学研究所，在数据科学和工程学领域，与30多个工业合作伙伴一起。这为Qinetiq提供了一个现成的框架，可以与非学术路线的人们一起试用我们的飞行员。 QMUL最近建立了数字环境研究所，投资了300万英镑，建立了一个孵化数字健康业务的大学企业区。这提供了与Qinetiq的空间和连接性，并提供了一个关键的质量来测试我们的方法。我们将花费大量时间和精力来开发有关平等，多样性和包容性（EDI）以及负责任的研究与innnovation（RRI）的创新工作，尤其是对安全AI和数字制造对未来劳动力的影响与QINETIQ伦理与Qinetiq伦理和导体守则方法相关的影响。最后，梦想中的合作伙伴关系将为英国提供机会，不仅可以通过其50多年的天线和电磁学研究创新来维持这个才华横溢的团体，而且还可以开发与无线通信以及弹性基础设施相关的技术，这些技术对英国所有公民都有利于。