NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing autonomous systems technologies in the Northern Front (ND, SD, MT, ID)

NSF 发动机开发奖：推进北方前线的自主系统技术（ND、SD、MT、ID）

• 批准号: 2306532
• 负责人: Mark Askelson
• 金额: $ 99.27万
• 依托单位: University of North Dakota Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306532&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This Regional Innovation Engine Development Award provides support to develop a plan for a comprehensive ecosystem to advance autonomous systems in four northern-tier states. North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Idaho have a shared interest in serving the needs of rural and tribal communities, and more broadly the nation, by developing and fielding autonomous systems in critical sectors including transportation, agriculture, mining, energy, defense, and health care. Autonomous systems provide significant benefits, including increased safety, efficiency, resiliency, and inter-operability, while also addressing challenges such as workforce shortages and economic disparities in rural and tribal areas. This region is poised to build and deepen an autonomy-based innovation ecosystem given the strong needs/demands, its deep expertise in use-inspired needs, its existing capabilities across its critical sectors (transportation, agriculture, etc.), and its strong partnerships with stakeholders who require or engage with autonomous systems, with government agencies that establish policy and regulations, with industry, academia, and government organizations, and with economic development organizations that enable realization/commercialization. The project's academic partners are the University of North Dakota, Montana State University, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and Boise State University, which will partner with the Tribal Nations Research Group in Belcourt, ND. These partners, combined with stakeholders (communities, industry sectors, etc.), government agencies that establish policy and regulations, and suppliers of AS solutions (industry, tribal leadership, academia, government, economic development organizations), comprise the NFASIDE leadership team, ensuring that all aspects that are critical to the realization of the benefits of autonomous systems are incorporated.This project will identify needs/use cases, develop, and translate autonomous systems into practice. Key enablers include clear delineation of needs/opportunities, consolidation of a team that has both deep and broad expertise in key areas, early engagement with stakeholders to ensure realization viability within desired timeframes, extensive utilization of digital engineering to accelerate development, close coupling of development stages, clear pathways to translation/commercialization, and workforce development that serves all stakeholders -— especially under-represented populations across the educational spectrum from high schools to post-doctoral programs. This effort will coalesce the NFASIDE team to provide an organizational and operational structure and a roadmap for realizing a self-sustaining and productive AS engine that drives the rapid realization of autonomous systems' benefits.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.

该区域创新引擎开发奖为制定一项全面的生态系统计划提供支持，以推动四个北部州的自主系统。 北达科他州、南达科他州、蒙大拿州和爱达荷州通过在交通、农业、采矿、能源、国防和医疗保健等关键部门开发和部署自治系统，在满足农村和部落社区以及更广泛的国家需求方面有着共同的利益。 自主系统提供了显著的好处，包括提高安全性、效率、弹性和互操作性，同时还解决了农村和部落地区劳动力短缺和经济差距等挑战。 该地区准备建立和深化一个基于生态系统的创新生态系统，因为它有强大的需求/需求，它在使用需求方面的深厚专业知识，它在关键部门（交通，农业等）的现有能力，以及与需要或参与自治系统的利益相关者、制定政策和法规的政府机构、工业界、学术界和政府组织以及实现实现/商业化的经济发展组织的强大伙伴关系。 该项目的学术合作伙伴是北达科他州大学、蒙大拿州州立大学、南达科他州矿业与技术学院和博伊西州立大学，博伊西州立大学将与北达科他州贝尔科特的部落民族研究小组合作。 这些合作伙伴与利益攸关方（社区、行业部门等）一起，制定政策和法规的政府机构，以及自治系统解决方案的供应商（工业、部落领导、学术界、政府、经济发展组织），组成了NFASIDE领导团队，以确保自治系统的利益实现的所有关键方面都被纳入其中。 关键推动因素包括明确界定需求/机会，整合在关键领域拥有深厚和广泛专业知识的团队，尽早与利益相关者接触以确保在预期时间范围内实现可行性，广泛利用数字工程来加速开发，开发阶段的紧密结合，翻译/商业化的明确途径，以及为所有利益相关者服务的劳动力发展-特别是从高中到博士后课程的教育范围内代表性不足的人群。 这一努力将联合NFASIDE团队，为实现自我维持和高效的AS引擎提供组织和运营结构以及路线图，从而推动自动化系统的快速实现。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。