MRI: Development of Unmanned Vehicle Systems as Research Platform for Autonomous Intelligence

ECCS-0723274 Xioajun Geng，加州州立大学-北岭分校智力优势：自动驾驶车辆，包括无人驾驶航空器和无人驾驶地面车辆，在民用和军事应用中发挥着重要作用。近年来，更多的研究已经指向高水平的规划和管理，多个自主车辆之间的协同控制和信息融合，以及视觉辅助智能。该项目的目标是开发一个无人驾驶车辆试验台，其中将开发和测试各种无人驾驶车辆，以便进行自主技术的研究工作。不仅将在这个项目中提出的试验台作为一个独特的平台，各种先进的研究课题，而且开发过程本身提供了独特的机会，为我们的教师和学生互动工作。总的来说，教师和学生正在进行的研究活动将受益于系统的开发阶段，并从测试台系统开发后立即。更广泛的影响：CSUN是一所私立本科院校，致力于研究，为本科生和研究生提供培训。校园是联邦指定的少数民族服务机构和西班牙裔服务机构，并定期排名前20位的机构授予少数民族学生学士学位的数量。美国国家科学基金会将工程与计算机科学学院列为全国五大硕士机构之一，用于培养本科生，他们将继续获得科学和工程博士学位。此外，学院近72%的本科生和64%的研究生是少数民族。因此，拟议的项目将直接影响工程和技术领域代表性不足的学生。

ECCS-0723274Xioajun Geng, California State University-NorthridgeIntellectual Merit: Autonomous vehicles, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Unmanned Ground Vehicles, play important roles in civilian and military applications. In recent years, more research has been directed to high levels of planning and management, cooperative control and information fusion among multiple autonomous vehicles, and vision-aided intelligence. The goal of this project is to develop an unmanned vehicle test-bed wherein various unmanned vehicles will be developed and tested so that research work on autonomous technology can be conducted. Not only will the test-bed proposed in this project serve as a unique platform for various advanced research topics, but also the development process itself provides unique opportunities for our faculty and students to work interactively. Overall, the on-going research activities of the faculty and the students will benefit from the development phase of the system immediately and from the test-bed system after being developed. Broader Impact: CSUN is a Primarily Undergraduate Institution and has a strong commitment to research that involves and provides training to both undergraduate and graduate students. The campus is a federally designated Minority Serving Institution and Hispanic Serving Institution, and is regularly ranked in the top 20 institutions for the number of Bachelor degrees awarded to minority students. National Science Foundation has ranked the College of Engineering and Computer Science as one of the top five master's institutions in the nation for producing undergraduates who go on to obtain doctoral degrees in science and engineering. Furthermore, nearly 72% of the College's undergraduate enrollment and 64% of its graduate students are ethnic minorities. Therefore, the proposed project will directly impact underrepresented students in the engineering and technologies.