IUCRC Planning Grant: University of New Hampshire: Center for Digital Factory Innovations (CDFI)

IUCRC 规划拨款：新罕布什尔大学：数字工厂创新中心 (CDFI)

• 批准号: 2113892
• 负责人: Nicholas Kirsch
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-15 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113892&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Planning; Grant; University; New

The objective of this planning grant is to organize and plan for the establishment of an IUCRC Center for Digital Factory Innovations (CDFI). Funding will support an industry-focused workshop to gather input regarding the critical role that sensors, connectivity, automation, and enterprise models, along with machine learning and big data technologies, can play in transforming advanced manufacturing in the US. The Internet of Things for Manufacturing (IoTfM) harvests capabilities to enable the digital factory and drives sustained performance improvements in manufacturing. Interconnected, self-aware factories and processes that manufacture products through automation and intelligent human-machine interactions are envisioned. Consistent with this vision, the proposed center’s long-term objective is to catalyze IoTfM advancement and adoption by providing pre-competitive, fundamental knowledge to industry for the purposes of improved product performance, enhanced productivity, work force development, and economic growth. Collaborators at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), North Carolina State University (NCSU), and Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) will join to create this new center. The proposed planning meeting will focus on critical knowledge gaps in four thrust areas: 1) Self-aware processes that contribute integrated sensors and accompanying adaptive, cloud-based optimization and control systems for processes such as machining, forming and robotics; 2) Augmented artificial intelligence (AI) that promotes human-machine cooperation in a cyber-physical system environment for applications such as discrete processes and cobots; 3) Protocols and interoperability that assure seamless, wireless connectivity in communication platforms with time-sensitive networks and the secure transfer of data within the digital factory environment; and 4) Self-organizing systems that represent an alternative way of organizing factory operations for increased flexibility, reconfigurability and robustness in contrast to highly centralized approaches. CDFI envisions a forum for collaborations among academic, industrial, national laboratory, and international researchers and a vehicle for educating the next generation of scientists and engineers in this industrial focus area.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.

该计划赠款的目的是组织和计划建立IUCRC数字工厂创新中心（CDFI）。资金将用于支持一个以行业为重点的研讨会，以收集有关传感器、连接性、自动化和企业模型以及机器学习和大数据技术沿着在美国先进制造业转型中所发挥的关键作用的信息。制造业物联网（IoTfM）可获得实现数字化工厂的能力，并推动制造业的持续性能提升。设想通过自动化和智能人机交互制造产品的互联、自我意识的工厂和流程。与这一愿景相一致，拟议中心的长期目标是通过为行业提供竞争前的基础知识，以提高产品性能、提高生产力、劳动力发展和经济增长，促进物联网的进步和采用。 新罕布什尔州大学（UNH）、北卡罗来纳州州立大学（NCSU）和格鲁吉亚理工学院（GT）的合作者将加入创建这个新中心。拟议的规划会议将重点关注四个重点领域的关键知识差距：1）自我意识流程，为加工，成型和机器人等流程提供集成传感器和相应的自适应，基于云的优化和控制系统; 2）增强人工智能（AI），促进离散流程和协作机器人等应用程序的网络物理系统环境中的人机合作; 3）协议和互操作性，确保通信平台与时间敏感网络的无缝无线连接以及数字工厂环境中数据的安全传输;以及4）自组织系统，代表了组织工厂运营的另一种方式，与高度集中的方法相比，具有更高的灵活性，可重新配置性和鲁棒性。CDFI设想了一个学术、工业、国家实验室和国际研究人员之间合作的论坛，以及一个在这个工业重点领域教育下一代科学家和工程师的工具。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。