IUCRC Planning Grant: North Carolina State University: Center for Digital Factory Innovation (CDFI)

IUCRC 规划拨款：北卡罗来纳州立大学：数字工厂创新中心 (CDFI)

• 批准号: 2242635
• 负责人: Noel Greis
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242635&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Planning; Grant; North; Carolina

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）。资金将支持一个以行业为中心的研讨会，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的关键作用的意见，可以在美国改造美国的先进制造业方面发挥作用。制造业互联网（IOTFM）收获了能够使数字工厂的能力，并在制造业方面持续改进绩效。设想通过自动化和智能人机相互作用来制造产品的相互联系，自我意识的工厂和过程。与这一愿景一致，拟议中心的长期目标是通过向行业提供预竞争性的基本知识来促进IOTFM的进步和采用，以提高产品绩效，提高生产率，劳动力发展和经济增长。新罕布什尔大学（UNH），北卡罗来纳州立大学（NCSU）和佐治亚理工学院（GT）的合作者将加入创建这个新中心。拟议的计划会议将重点介绍四个推力领域的关键知识差距：1）自我意识的过程，这些过程贡献了综合传感器并参与自适应，基于云的基于云的优化和控制系统，例如2）增强人工机器人（AI），从而促进人类机器人在网络体系系统环境中促进人机合作，以促进诸如离散流程和Cobots和Cobots和Cobots和Cobots的应用程序环境； 3）协议和互操作性可确保通过时间敏感网络和数字工厂环境中数据的安全传输在通信平台中无缝无线连接； 4）与高度集中的方法相比，自组织系统是组织工厂运营的另一种方式，以提高灵活性，可重构性和鲁棒性。 CDFI设想了一个学术，工业，国家实验室和国际研究人员合作的论坛，以及在这个工业焦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的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。