IUCRC Planning Grant Clarkson University: Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility (eCAT)

虽然自动驾驶汽车公司专注于制造无人驾驶汽车，但电气化和连接技术可以通过允许车辆与驾驶环境沟通来升级行业，以实现更好的安全性和更少的排放。电动、互联和自动驾驶汽车系统发展的一个关键障碍是缺乏所需领域的协同研究。拟议的电动、互联和自主移动技术中心(ECAT)将专注于跨学科研究，旨在通过创造创新的电动、互联和自动驾驶技术，启动和加快移动方法从传统车辆向电动、互联和自动驾驶汽车的转变。该中心是韦恩州立大学(WSU)、北得克萨斯大学(UNT)和克拉克森大学(Clarkson)之间的合作伙伴关系，不仅是学术研究人员与业界就重要问题进行合作的机构，还为行业合作伙伴提供机会，以获取来自不同研究人员群体的高级协同研究成果。具体地说，克拉克森大学的网站将专注于开发硬件架构和主干基础设施，以支持互联和自动驾驶汽车的计算需求，以及自动导航和车载电力系统的研究。该中心不仅将推动电动、互联和自动驾驶汽车的科学和技术，还将通过合作伙伴关系加快学术界和产业界之间的知识和知识产权转让。这将使最先进的移动技术从研究实验室快速转化为行业。教育工作将致力于(1)BS/MS课程的课程设计，(2)为K-12学生开发夏令营，(3)扩大在华盛顿州立大学、北卡罗来纳大学和克拉克森大学的计算和工程方面的参与。研究成果将通过我们的年度会议-MetroCAD、出版物和公开可用的开源项目的开发来传播。从这个项目中获得的数据将包括实验、计算、基于文本的数据和/或课程数据。所有数据产品将在奖项结束后至少保留三年或在公开发布(出版)后三年保留，以较晚的时间为准。WSU、UNT和Clarkson将拥有受密码保护的共享网络驱动器，以促进团队内部、与合作者以及社区中任何对NSF资助的数据感兴趣的人共享数据。Http://ecat.center.This将创建一个用于导航到存档数据的登录页面，以反映国家科学基金会的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

While autonomous vehicle companies focus on manufacturing driverless cars, electrification and connectivity technologies can upgrade the industry by allowing vehicles to communicate with the driving circumstance to achieve better safety with less emission. A key obstacle to the development of the electric, connected and autonomous vehicle system is the shortage of synergy research from needed domains. The proposed Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility (eCAT) will concentrate on interdisciplinary research, aiming to initiate and accelerate the transformation of mobility methods from conventional vehicles to electric, connected and autonomous vehicles by creating innovative electric, connected and autonomous technologies. A partnership between Wayne State University (WSU), University of North Texas (UNT), and Clarkson University (Clarkson), the center not only serves as an apparatus of academic researchers collaborating with industry on important problems, but also provides industry partners opportunities to access advanced synergic research produced from a diverse group of researchers. Specifically, Clarkson University Site will focus on developing hardware architecture and backbone infrastructure to support the computing demand for connected and autonomous vehicles, as well as research in autonomous navigation and vehicular electric power systems. The Center will not only advance the science and technologies of electric, connected and autonomous vehicles, but also accelerate both knowledge and intellectual property transfer between academia and industry through collaborative partnerships. This will allow for the rapid transformation of the state-of-the-art mobility technologies from research labs to industry. Educational efforts will be devoted to (1) curriculum design for the BS/MS programs, (2) summer camp development for K-12 students, (3) broadening participation in computing and engineering, at WSU, UNT, and Clarkson. Research results will be disseminated through our annual conference - MetroCAD, publications, and the development of publicly-available open-source projects.Data obtained from this project will include experimental, computational, text-based, and/or curricular data. All data products will be retained for a minimum of three years after conclusion of the award or three years after public release (publication), whichever is later. WSU, UNT, and Clarkson will have password-protected shared network drives to facilitate data sharing within the teams, with collaborators, and indeed anyone in the community with an interest in the NSF-funded data. A landing page for navigation to archived data will be created at http://ecat.center.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.