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

ECAT中心专注于以电动、互联和自动驾驶汽车(ECAV)为中心的跨学科研究。该中心不仅是学术研究人员与产业界就具有高度国内和国际重要性的问题进行合作的机构，而且还为行业合作伙伴提供了机会，以获取由不同研究人员群体产生的高级协同研究。ECAT中心将通过发展产业界、学术界和政府之间的长期合作伙伴关系，加快从传统车辆到eCAV的移动性方法的转变，并促进运输行业的新合作范式。我们位于多个地点的跨学科研究团队将专注于在各个领域整合电气化和自动驾驶技术的创新研发，包括先进的电动汽车(EVS)和物联网(IoT)传感器、可靠的车辆到万物(V2X)通信设备、高性能边缘计算平台、传感器数据处理的高效算法，以及互联自动驾驶系统的创建。克拉克森大学的网站将专注于硬件支持和计算主干，特别是以整体和集成的方式使用边缘计算、边缘服务器和云计算，以满足互联和自动驾驶工作负载的计算需求。ECAT中心将努力推动科技进步，实现eCAV在我们的日常生活中的应用。该中心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(IP)转让。这将使最先进的移动技术从研究实验室迅速转变为行业和市场。教育工作将致力于(I)本科生和研究生的课程设计，(Ii)为K-12学生举办夏令营，(Iii)扩大克拉克森大学和其他ECAT网站对计算机和工程的参与。从该项目中获得的数据将包括实验、计算、基于文本和/或课程的数据。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。该中心的网站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。

The eCAT center concentrates on interdisciplinary research centered around electric, connected and autonomous vehicles (eCAVs). The center not only serves as an apparatus of academic researchers collaborating with industry on problems of high national and international importance, but also provides opportunities industry partners to access the advanced synergic research produced by a diverse group of researchers. The eCAT Center will accelerate the transformation of mobility methods from conventional vehicles to eCAVs and facilitate a new collaboration paradigm for the transportation industry by developing long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government. Our trans-disciplinary research team located at multiple sites will focus on innovative research and development towards the integration of electrification and autonomous technologies in various domains, including advanced electric vehicles (EVs) and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, reliable Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communication devices, high performance edge computing platforms, efficient algorithms for sensor data processing, and the creation of connected autonomous driving systems. The Clarkson University Site will focus on hardware support and computing backbone, especially employing edge computing, edge server, cloud computing in a holistic and integrated fashion to address the computing need for connected and autonomous driving workloads. The eCAT Center will strive to advance the science and technologies towards realizing eCAVs in our daily life. The center will accelerate both knowledge and intellectual property (IP) 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 and market. Educational efforts will be devoted to (i) curriculum design at undergraduate and graduate levels, (ii) summer camp development for K-12 students, (iii) broadening participation in computing and engineering, at Clarkson University and the other eCAT Sites as well. 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. The Sites of the Center 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.