PFI: Autonomous Robotic Rotorcraft for Exploration, Surveillance and Transportation (ARREST)

PFI：用于探索、监视和运输的自主机器人旋翼机（ARREST）

• 批准号: 1113830
• 负责人: R. Vijay Kumar
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1113830&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; Autonomous; Robotic; Rotorcraft; Exploration

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project, Autonomous Robotic Rotorcraft for Exploration, Surveillance, and Transportation (ARREST), from the University of Pennsylvania will create a partnership among small-business entrepreneurs in small rotor-craft and sensors and robotics researchers at the University of Pennsylvania developing autonomous robots. The partnership will enable the translation of fundamental, federally-sponsored, research results into products with societal benefits and commercial impact by implementing a loosely structured, application-focused, "play-like sandbox" environment among its partners. The intellectual merit of this project is derived from four projects aimed at developing products/ technologies enabled by the cross-fertilization of technologies for robotics and Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) and from the establishment of a sandbox to encourage exploration of potential applications and markets for technologies that are being, have been, or can be developed. New research contributions will include the development of small, autonomous micro aerial vehicles and the algorithms/software for sensing, perception, control and navigation without direct human command or intervention. Additionally, the partnership proposes innovation in doctoral education by adding a new dimension to student training to encourage "lateral and analogous thinking." It will consist of structured interactions with technology transfer specialists, inventors, and venture capitalists; collaborative research at the sites of the industrial partners; and new mechanisms for spurring innovation that includes an "inverted X-prize" competition called the "Y-prize," which focuses on the platform as the solution space (instead of as the problem space), thus fostering innovation by generating novel application ideas for using or adapting existing technological solutions and methodologies.The broader impacts of the project are the new commercial applications and products that will be identified in collaboration with the knowledge-enhancement partners, and, in addition, the leveraging of already developed technologies to create these products. These products will be of direct use to end-users engaged in first response and also will provide incremental benefits to homeland security and to the military. The partnership will lead to the creation of a new robotics rotorcraft industry and help spawn a new generation of doctoral students, trained in the fundamentals with a depth that has come to be expected in top-notch doctoral programs, but also in the "lateral thinking" that is characteristic of agile, innovative small businesses. The partnership will establish a model for leveraging Department of Defense investment in basic research for dual-use applications and a framework for identifying and pursuing commercial applications that are not directly connected to security, first response, and defense applications. Partners at the inception of the project include the Knowledge Enhancement Partnership (KEP) unit, consisting of the University of Pennsylvania (GRASP Robotics Laboratory); two small businesses: Dragon Pictures, Inc. (Essington, PA) and EmergentViews (San Francisco, CA); and a large private sector organization: Advanced Technologies Laboratory, Lockheed Martin Corporation. In addition, there are other core partners. These include public sector partners: the City of Philadelphia, and the Southeast Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Partnership and their network of Angel and Venture Investors.

宾夕法尼亚大学的这个创新合作伙伴关系（PFI）项目，用于探索，监视和运输的自主机器人旋翼机（ARREST）将在宾夕法尼亚大学的小型旋翼机和传感器和机器人研究人员的小企业家之间建立合作伙伴关系，开发自主机器人。该合作伙伴关系将通过在合作伙伴之间实施结构松散、以应用为中心的“游戏式沙箱”环境，将联邦资助的基础研究成果转化为具有社会效益和商业影响的产品。该项目的智力价值来自四个项目，旨在开发通过机器人和无人机（UAV）技术的交叉施肥实现的产品/技术，并建立一个沙箱，以鼓励探索正在开发的潜在应用和市场。 新的研究贡献将包括开发小型自主微型飞行器以及用于传感、感知、控制和导航的算法/软件，而无需人类直接指挥或干预。此外，该伙伴关系还提出了博士教育的创新，为学生培训增加了一个新的维度，以鼓励“横向和类比思维”。“它将包括与技术转让专家、发明家和风险资本家的结构化互动;在工业伙伴的地点进行合作研究;以及激励创新的新机制，包括称为“Y奖”的“反向X奖”竞赛，该竞赛侧重于将平台作为解决方案空间（而不是作为问题空间），从而通过产生新的应用想法来使用或调整现有的技术解决方案和方法来促进创新。该项目的更广泛影响是新的商业应用和产品，此外，还需要与知识增进伙伴合作，确定新的产品和服务，并利用已经开发的技术来创造这些产品。这些产品将直接用于参与第一反应的最终用户，并将为国土安全和军队提供增量效益。这种伙伴关系将导致一个新的机器人旋翼机行业的创建，并帮助产生新一代的博士生，在基础知识的深度，已经来预期在一流的博士课程，而且在“横向思维”，这是敏捷，创新的小企业的特点训练。该合作伙伴关系将建立一个模型，利用国防部在军民两用应用基础研究方面的投资，并建立一个框架，用于识别和追求与安全、第一反应和国防应用没有直接联系的商业应用。该项目开始时的合作伙伴包括知识增强伙伴关系（KEP）单位，由宾夕法尼亚大学（GRASP机器人实验室）组成;两家小企业：Dragon Pictures，Inc.（Essington，PA）和EmergentViews（San弗朗西斯科，CA）;以及大型私营部门组织：先进技术实验室，洛克希德·马丁公司。此外，还有其他核心合作伙伴。 其中包括公共部门合作伙伴：费城市和宾夕法尼亚州东南部的本富兰克林技术合作伙伴关系及其天使和风险投资者网络。