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I/UCRC Phase I: VT Site Addition to the Center for UAS

I/UCRC 第一阶段：UAS 中心增设 VT 站点

基本信息

批准号：
1539975
负责人：
Craig Woolsey
金额：
$ 32.5万
依托单位：
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2015-09-15 至 2020-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1539975&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
UCRC Phase VT Site Addition

项目摘要

The project will add an I/UCRC site at Virginia Tech, as a new member of Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS). C-UAS is currently the only NSF-sponsored unmanned aircraft research center. It was established in 2012, with BYU as the lead institution and UC-Boulder as a member. VT faculty will share responsibility for managing research projects with BYU and CU. The participating members of the VT site will also collaborate with members of the current sites to ensure technical success and to foster multi-corporate relationships among industry partners. The Site will focus on the following application areas: agriculture (e.g., methods to monitor plant pathogen transport), civil infrastructure (e.g., bridge inspection), and geographic information systems. It will make an impact on society by developing: (1) pre-competitive research products and intellectual property that will advance UAS technology for commerce and security, (2) curriculum enhancements to support the special technical training needs of students pursuing engineering careers in the UAS domain, and (3) a diverse, strongly connected human network of forward-thinking, technically excellent professionals who will invent the future for the UAS commercial sector.Virginia Tech faculty will make contributions in the broad areas of (1) advanced flight control (e.g., methods to construct robust, secure, and mathematically certified control algorithms), (2) airworthiness, cybersecurity, and reliability (e.g., reliability prediction methods that incorporate imprecise uncertainties intrinsic to small UAS); (3) machine vision and machine learning (e.g., software for real-time, on-board intelligent image processing), (4) multiphysics design optimization (e.g., aircraft design optimization tools that incorporate unsteady fluid/structure interaction), and , and (5) wireless communication (e.g., the use of software defined radio and intelligent communication protocols that adapt the information flow to the environmental conditions).

该项目将在弗吉尼亚理工大学增加一个 I/UCRC 站点，作为无人机系统中心 (C-UAS) 的新成员。 C-UAS 是目前唯一由 NSF 赞助的无人机研究中心。它成立于2012年，以杨百翰大学为牵头机构，加州大学博尔德分校为成员。 VT 教师将与杨百翰大学和科罗拉多大学共同负责管理研究项目。 VT 站点的参与成员还将与当前站点的成员合作，以确保技术成功并促进行业合作伙伴之间的多企业关系。该网站将重点关注以下应用领域：农业（例如监测植物病原体传播的方法）、民用基础设施（例如桥梁检查）和地理信息系统。它将通过开发以下方式对社会产生影响：(1) 竞争前的研究产品和知识产权，将推动无人机系统技术在商业和安全领域的发展；(2) 课程改进，以支持在无人机系统领域从事工程职业的学生的特殊技术培训需求；(3) 由具有前瞻性思维、技术优秀的专业人员组成的多元化、紧密联系的人才网络，他们将创造无人机系统商业领域的未来。在以下广泛领域做出贡献：（1）先进飞行控制（例如，构建稳健、安全和经过数学认证的控制算法的方法），（2）适航性、网络安全和可靠性（例如，纳入小型无人机固有的不精确不确定性的可靠性预测方法）； (3) 机器视觉和机器学习（例如，用于实时机载智能图像处理的软件），(4) 多物理场设计优化（例如，结合非稳态流体/结构相互作用的飞机设计优化工具），以及 (5) 无线通信（例如，使用软件定义的无线电和智能通信协议，使信息流适应环境条件）。