Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)

面向未来无线连接的电磁材料设计和制造的数字化转型 (DREAM)

• 批准号: EP/X02542X/1
• 负责人: Y Hao
• 金额: $ 328.72万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX02542X%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Transformation; Electromagnetic; Material; Design

BEIS recently launched the Innovation Strategy, which the Government will establish 'innovation missions' seeking to address global and UK challenges through innovation. The Government wants to focus on exploiting seven technology areas where the UK has global competitive strengths. The proposed research covers four out of seven areas including: Advanced materials and manufacturing; AI, digital and advanced computing; electronics, photonics, and quantum; and robotics and smart machines.Together with QinetiQ, QMUL have developed a radically broad but new concept as "software defined materials (SDMs)", for which properties can be modified by simply uploading and updating computer software. The impact of SDMs is huge and it leads to tight integration of sensing, actuation, and computation that biological systems exhibit to achieve shape and appearance changes, and tactile sensing at very high dynamic range (like birds in flight). The vision of DREAM Partnership is therefore to unlock fundamental research opportunities promised by SDMs through digital transformation which are centered on design and manufacturing of novel electromagnetic materials for the automation and reconfigurability of future wireless systems.The DREAM Partnership will provide added value to both organisations, including:-Benefits for QinetiQ: Refresh of their technology portfolio using state-of-the-art materials and devices; securing new business by enhancement of the applications in wireless communications; greater international competitiveness through innovation insertion into systems; co-development of IP for enduring benefits in multiple markets.Benefits for QMUL: Stronger and more engaged industrial partnerships; enhanced supervision by using external specialists from QinetiQ; Potential licensing income through innovation; Enhanced knowledge transfer and an applications centric focus aligned to UK industry requirements.Benefits for UK:Gain a foothold in the marketplace with a new technology; Establish a large supply chain through QinetiQ; Access export markets through new products with routes to markets established via QinetiQ and position the UK as a leader in a key growth sector to compete with overseas incumbents.QMUL has agreed a property deal with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) that paves the way for the development of a Whitechapel Life Sciences Cluster in East London, a truly inclusive environment with culture diversity. We envisage that this new space development will house a number of cross-faculty research centres including the Centre of the Internet of Medical Things, which aligns strongly to areas of existing strength in the DREAM partnership. QMUL was one of the first universities to offer degree-level apprenticeships. We have been awarded £28m to lead an Institute of Technology offering degree-level apprenticeships in data-science and engineering with over 30 industrial partners. This provides QinetiQ a ready framework to trial our pilot with people from non-academic routes. QMUL has recently established the Institute for the Digital Environment, investing £3m to establish a University Enterprise Zone incubating digital-health businesses. This provides the space and connectivity with QinetiQ, and offers a critical-mass to test our approach. We will invest a significant of time and effort on developing a body of innovative work on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and resposnsible research and innnovation (RRI), particularly from safe AI and digital manufacturing impact on future workforce linking with QinetiQ ethics and code-of-conduct approaches. Finally, The DREAM Partnership will provide UK the opportunity not only to sustain this talented group with its legacy of more than 50 years of antenna and electromagnetics research innovation, but also to develop technologies relevant to wireless communications and and resilient infrastructures, which are beneficial to all citizens in the UK.

BEIS最近推出了创新战略，政府将建立“创新使命”，寻求通过创新应对全球和英国的挑战。政府希望集中精力开发英国具有全球竞争优势的七个技术领域。该研究计划涵盖七个领域中的四个，包括：先进材料和制造;人工智能，数字和先进计算;电子，光子学和量子;机器人和智能机器。QMUL与QinetiQ一起开发了一个非常广泛但新的概念，即“软件定义材料（SDM）"，只需上传和更新计算机软件即可修改其属性。SDM的影响是巨大的，它导致生物系统表现出的感测、致动和计算的紧密集成，以实现形状和外观的变化，以及在非常高的动态范围内的触觉感测（如飞行中的鸟类）。因此，DREAM Partnership的愿景是通过数字化转型释放SDM承诺的基础研究机会，这些数字化转型以新型电磁材料的设计和制造为中心，用于未来无线系统的自动化和可重构性。DREAM Partnership将为两家组织提供附加价值，包括：-QinetiQ的好处：使用最先进的材料和设备更新其技术组合;通过增强无线通信应用程序来确保新业务;通过在系统中插入创新来提高国际竞争力;共同开发IP以在多个市场中获得持久利益。QMUL的好处：更强大和更参与的工业伙伴关系;通过使用QinetiQ的外部专家来加强监督;通过创新获得潜在的许可收入;加强知识转移和以应用为中心的重点与英国行业要求保持一致。对英国的好处：通过新技术在市场上站稳脚跟;通过QinetiQ建立大型供应链;通过新产品进入出口市场，通过QinetiQ建立市场路线，并将英国定位为关键增长领域的领导者，以与之竞争QMUL已与卫生和社会保障部（DHSC）达成协议，为在东伦敦发展白教堂生命科学集群铺平了道路，这是一个真正具有文化多样性的包容性环境。我们设想，这一新的空间开发将容纳一些跨学院的研究中心，包括医疗物联网中心，该中心与梦想伙伴关系中现有的优势领域紧密结合。QMUL是最早提供学位水平学徒的大学之一。我们获得了2800万英镑的资金，领导一所技术学院，与30多个工业合作伙伴一起提供数据科学和工程方面的学位学徒。这为QinetiQ提供了一个现成的框架，让非学术路线的人试用我们的试点。QMUL最近成立了数字环境研究所，投资300万英镑建立了一个大学企业区，孵化数字健康企业。这为QinetiQ提供了空间和连接，并提供了一个临界质量来测试我们的方法。我们将投入大量的时间和精力，开发一系列关于平等、多样性和包容性（EDI）以及责任研究和创新（RRI）的创新工作，特别是从安全的人工智能和数字制造对未来劳动力的影响，以及QinetiQ道德和行为准则方法。最后，梦想伙伴关系将为英国提供机会，不仅可以利用其50多年的天线和电磁学研究创新遗产来维持这一人才群体，而且还可以开发与无线通信和弹性基础设施相关的技术，这对英国所有公民都有利。