Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Infrastructure for Safe, Efficient and Resilient Mobility (ERC-I2SERM)

规划资助：安全、高效、弹性移动智能基础设施工程研究中心（ERC-I2SERM）

• 批准号: 1840432
• 负责人: Anil Misra
• 金额: $ 9.77万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840432&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.This planning grant award supports the design of an Engineering Research Center (ERC) focused upon potentially transformative science and engineering research that promises to make our roadways safer, more reliable, more efficient, and more environmentally sustainable. This research will stimulate the transformation of the way we travel and deliver goods and services. Roadways and highways are not only national economic lifelines but impact every sphere of societal activities. Next generation transportation infrastructure must have sufficient capacity, making it able to grow with the increasing demand and address the emerging connected, automated and shared vehicle technologies. It should also be resistant to interruptions, able to withstand all manner of regional natural hazards. Finally, it must be aesthetic, have negligible environmental impact, and use minimal resources. These interrelated demands present an opportunity for a new era of intelligent transportation infrastructure based on new materials, sensing and automation, and greater interactions with the world. We imagine future highway and roadway systems which extensively utilize cutting-edge (smart) materials, smart and adaptable infrastructure, smart transportation systems and physics-guided data science to achieve safety, resiliency, and efficiency. Such an intelligent infrastructure will be able to sense, interpret and interact in real time with its environment. This allows for anticipation and adjustment to external stimuli, such as those posed by traffic and extreme events. The planning grant activities will provide the platform for identification of key technical challenges, their potential solution hypotheses, and the disciplinary contributions that will lead to formation of the most effective ERC. To identify key technical challenges to resilient transportation infrastructure, the planning team will engage deeply with stakeholders and domain experts. This will be done through a dedicated workshop, panel discussion(s) and a team building retreat. The results of these engagements will form the basis for fine tuning the technical topics and coordination of the research agenda across the core areas and to define the linkages among the disciplines. The expected outcome will be identification of a set of critical research issues and a broad yet convergent research program. This allows for a clear definition of the structure and roles within this envisioned multi-university center. These planning activities will also define the ways the center will be able to represent diverse institutions from the viewpoint of geography, types of students served (including minority students) as well as their location in or near major metropolitan areas. The planned stakeholder engagement, workshop, and retreat are expected to impact the outlook of academic investigators towards these societal challenges, as well as how the stakeholders (e.g., industrial innovators, policymakers, citizens) perceive scientific research. The planning activities will also engage graduate and undergraduate students to provide them exposure to emerging transdisciplinary research opportunities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心规划补助金竞赛是作为 ERC 计划内的试点征集活动进行的。 整个 ERC 竞赛并不需要规划拨款，而是旨在培养团队之间的能力，以规划融合的、中心规模的工程研究。该规划拨款支持工程研究中心 (ERC) 的设计，该中心专注于潜在的变革性科学和工程研究，有望使我们的道路更安全、更可靠、更高效、更环境可持续。这项研究将促进我们旅行以及提供商品和服务的方式的转变。 道路和高速公路不仅是国家经济命脉，而且影响社会活动的各个领域。 下一代交通基础设施必须拥有足够的容量，使其能够随着需求的增长而增长，并应对新兴的互联、自动化和共享车辆技术。它还应该能够抵抗干扰，能够承受各种区域自然灾害。最后，它必须美观、对环境影响可以忽略不计，并且使用最少的资源。 这些相互关联的需求为基于新材料、传感和自动化以及与世界加强互动的智能交通基础设施新时代提供了机遇。 我们想象未来的高速公路和道路系统将广泛利用尖端（智能）材料、智能和适应性强的基础设施、智能交通系统和物理引导的数据科学来实现安全、弹性和效率。 这样的智能基础设施将能够感知、解释并与其环境实时交互。这允许对外部刺激进行预测和调整，例如交通和极端事件造成的刺激。 规划资助活动将为识别关键技术挑战、潜在的解决方案假设以及学科贡献提供平台，从而形成最有效的 ERC。为了确定弹性交通基础设施的关键技术挑战，规划团队将与利益相关者和领域专家深入接触。这将通过专门的研讨会、小组讨论和团队建设务虚会来完成。 这些合作的结果将构成调整核心领域的技术主题和协调研究议程以及定义学科之间联系的基础。 预期结果将是确定一系列关键研究问题和广泛但趋同的研究计划。这使得对这个设想的多大学中心的结构和角色有了清晰的定义。这些规划活动还将定义该中心从地理、所服务的学生类型（包括少数族裔学生）以及其在主要大都市区或附近的位置的角度来代表不同机构的方式。 计划中的利益相关者参与、研讨会和务虚会预计将影响学术研究人员对这些社会挑战的看法，以及利益相关者（例如工业创新者、政策制定者、公民）如何看待科学研究。 规划活动还将吸引研究生和本科生，为他们提供接触新兴跨学科研究的机会。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。