REU Site: Cognitive and Autonomous Test Vehicles

这笔资金用于亚利桑那大学本科生CISE研究经验（REU）网站的首次更新。 一个由教师和研究生组成的团队将带领本科生在专注于自动驾驶汽车的自动驾驶系统的引人注目，具有挑战性和及时性的领域进行沉浸式研究体验。在小组合作，学生将学习如何设计和实现算法，在机器人汽车中测试它们，分析从实验中恢复的数据，并呈现结果。学生将有机会获得一个安全的，全尺寸的机器人汽车试验台，他们的实验。该网站将针对妇女和传统上在计算机领域代表性不足的群体进行征聘。参与计划的学生将获得第一手的研究经验，并深入了解研究生的生活，这将有助于他们在攻读研究生课程和选择专业职业（希望是计算机科学和工程）时做出明智的决定。该计划由一个优秀的团队领导，提供最先进的设施和专业导师，指导本科生探索现实世界的问题。学生将在基于模型的设计，认知无线电，控制算法，传感数据处理，车辆到车辆基础设施通信和多车辆算法可扩展性等领域开展项目。 由于测试平台的性质，参与者将被要求使用螺旋式开发过程，只有在验证了以前的要求之后才添加新的要求。螺旋式开发过程将允许项目有大量的潜在需求，并允许学生探索他们最感兴趣的需求。参与的学生将获得学术著作和演讲的经验，并开发视频，以广泛传播他们的项目。 学生们将参与一个身临其境的机会，设计一个普遍的系统，可能准备他们在未来探索其他社会规模的问题组件。

This funding provides for a first renewal of a CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Arizona. A team of faculty and graduate students will lead undergraduate students in immersive research experiences in the compelling, challenging and timely area of autonomous systems focusing on autonomous cars. Working together in small groups, the students will learn how to design and implement algorithms, test them in a robotics car, analyze data revived from experiments, and present the results. Students will have access to a safe, full-size robotics car testbed for their experiments. The site will target the recruitment of women and groups traditionally under-represented in the computing fields. Participating students will gain first-hand experience in research and get an insight into graduate students' life that will help them make informed decisions in pursuing postgraduate studies as well as in choosing professional careers, hopefully in computer science and engineering.The project is led by an outstanding team offering state-of-the art facilities and professional mentors to guide undergraduates in explorations of real-world problems. Students will undertake projects in the areas of model-based design, cognitive radio, control algorithms, sensory data processing, vehicle-to-vehicle-infrastructure communication, and multi-vehicle algorithm scalability. Due to the nature of the testbed, participants will be required to use a spiral development process, where new requirements are added only after previous requirements are verified. The spiral development process will permit projects to have a large number of potential requirements and allow the students to explore the requirements in which they are most interested. The participating students will gain experience in academic authorship and presentations and develop videos for broad dissemination of their projects. The students will participate in an immersive opportunity to design components of a pervasive system that might prepare them to explore other societal-scale problems in the future.