MRI: Acquisition of Autonomous Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle Platform for Multidisciplinary Research and Education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

NSF MRI项目旨在获得一个高性能的自动驾驶电动汽车平台，该平台具有用于研究和教育的传感器套件，以推进基础科学和工程研究和教育。该项目的知识价值包括以下几点。该平台将加速机器学习中关键算法的开发，并为自动驾驶汽车的安全性和稳定性量身定制分析方法，同时通过提供真实场景实现对网络安全的变革性研究。对先进机动性能源系统的研究也将得到扩展和进一步探索。该项目的广泛影响包括以下方面。该平台将支持本科生和研究生以及博士后研究员，通过可编程电动汽车的体验式学习提供研究培训机会。迪尔伯恩大学（UM-D）位于大都会底特律地区，是“三巨头”（通用汽车，福特和克莱斯勒）和汽车供应商的所在地。美国汽车和先进的移动行业需要更多技术熟练、知识渊博的科学家和工程师，他们已经准备好迎接新技术，如由人工智能和机器学习驱动的智能系统、能源和电力系统、网络安全以及人机界面。该项目将有助于通过收购的仪器满足先进移动行业对熟练工人的高需求。该平台将是重要的研究仪器，以显着加强跨学科的研究和教育在UM-D在几个研究活动，包括体现认知车辆，车载网络安全，能源消耗，环境感知，网络安全和驾驶员行为分析在电动和先进的移动性。该仪器还将大大提高本科生和研究生在电气，计算机，机器人，机械和工业工程部门在UM-D的研究培训。UM-D正在汽车，机器人，网络安全，能源系统和人车接口领域进行积极的研究。拟议的平台将使合作研究在一个现实的环境中与全面的可编程车辆在上述新兴的研究领域。该项目团队将致力于十个变革性的研究课题，这些课题将通过该平台实现，这将大大提高UM-D目前的研究和实验能力。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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This NSF MRI project aims to acquire a high-performance autonomous electric vehicle platform with a sensor suite for research and education to advance fundamental science and engineering research and education. The intellectual merits of the project include the following. The platform will accelerate the development of critical algorithms in machine learning and analysis methods tailored to the safety and stability of autonomous vehicles while enabling transformative research on cybersecurity by providing real-world scenarios. Research on energy systems for advanced mobility will also be able to be extended and further explored. The broader impacts of the project entail the following. The platform will support undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral fellows by offering research training opportunities through experiential learning with a programmable electric vehicle. The University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-D) is located in the Metro-Detroit area, the home to the “Big Three” (GM, Ford, and Chrysler), and automotive suppliers. The U.S. automotive and advanced mobility industries need more skilled and knowledgeable scientists and engineers who are ready for new technologies such as intelligent systems powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, energy and power systems, cybersecurity, and human-vehicle interfaces. The project will help in contributing to the high demand for skilled workers from the advanced mobility industry with the acquired instrument. The platform will be crucial research instrumentation to significantly enhance interdisciplinary research and education at UM-D in several research activities, including embodied cognitive vehicle, in-vehicular network security, energy consumption, environmental perception, cybersecurity, and driver behavior analyses in electric and advanced mobilities. The instrument will also substantially improve undergraduate and graduate research training in the electrical, computer, robotics, mechanical, and industrial engineering departments at UM-D. Active research is going on in the fields of automotive, robotics, cybersecurity, energy systems, and human-vehicle interface at UM-D. The proposed platform will enable collaborative research in a realistic environment with a full-scale programmable vehicle in the aforementioned emerging research areas. The project team will work on ten transformative research topics to be enabled by the platform that will substantially improve the current research and experimentation capabilities at UM-D.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.