MRI: Development of Unmanned Vehicle Systems as Research Platform for Autonomous Intelligence

Geng xiaajun， California State university - northridge智力优势：自动驾驶车辆，包括无人机和无人地面车辆，在民用和军事应用中发挥着重要作用。近年来，越来越多的研究转向高水平的规划与管理、多车协同控制与信息融合以及视觉辅助智能。该项目的目标是开发无人驾驶车辆试验台，开发和测试各种无人驾驶车辆，从而开展自动驾驶技术的研究工作。这个项目中提出的试验台不仅可以作为各种高级研究课题的独特平台，而且开发过程本身也为我们的教师和学生提供了独特的互动工作机会。总体而言，教师和学生正在进行的研究活动将立即受益于系统的开发阶段，并在开发后受益于测试平台系统。更广泛的影响：CSUN是一个主要的本科院校，有很强的研究承诺，涉及并提供培训，本科生和研究生。该校园是联邦指定的少数民族服务机构和西班牙裔服务机构，并且经常在授予少数民族学生的学士学位数量方面排名前20位。美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）将工程与计算机科学学院列为培养攻读科学与工程博士学位的本科生的全美五大硕士院校之一。此外，学院近72%的本科生和64%的研究生是少数民族。因此，拟议的项目将直接影响工程和技术领域代表性不足的学生。

ECCS-0723274Xioajun Geng, California State University-NorthridgeIntellectual Merit: Autonomous vehicles, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Unmanned Ground Vehicles, play important roles in civilian and military applications. In recent years, more research has been directed to high levels of planning and management, cooperative control and information fusion among multiple autonomous vehicles, and vision-aided intelligence. The goal of this project is to develop an unmanned vehicle test-bed wherein various unmanned vehicles will be developed and tested so that research work on autonomous technology can be conducted. Not only will the test-bed proposed in this project serve as a unique platform for various advanced research topics, but also the development process itself provides unique opportunities for our faculty and students to work interactively. Overall, the on-going research activities of the faculty and the students will benefit from the development phase of the system immediately and from the test-bed system after being developed. Broader Impact: CSUN is a Primarily Undergraduate Institution and has a strong commitment to research that involves and provides training to both undergraduate and graduate students. The campus is a federally designated Minority Serving Institution and Hispanic Serving Institution, and is regularly ranked in the top 20 institutions for the number of Bachelor degrees awarded to minority students. National Science Foundation has ranked the College of Engineering and Computer Science as one of the top five master's institutions in the nation for producing undergraduates who go on to obtain doctoral degrees in science and engineering. Furthermore, nearly 72% of the College's undergraduate enrollment and 64% of its graduate students are ethnic minorities. Therefore, the proposed project will directly impact underrepresented students in the engineering and technologies.