Collaborative Research: I/UCRC for Safety, Security, and Rescue Research

明尼苏达大学(明尼苏达大学)0934327；尼古拉斯·帕帕尼科洛普洛斯(0934413)；丹佛大学(UD)；理查德·沃伊尔斯这项提案的目的是更新和扩大安全、安保和救援研究中心，将其作为国家科学基金会的产业/大学合作研究中心。这项提议是基于UMN成功地完成了SSR-RC五年的运营，以及各公司承诺加入丹佛大学的一个研究地点。UMN将是SSR-RC的主要研究地点，宾夕法尼亚大学(几年前加入该中心)和丹佛大学作为研究伙伴。这项提案涵盖了UMN第二个五年的续期和将UD包括在内的扩展。拟建的中心将为警察、联邦调查局、联邦应急管理局、交通安全和大规模伤亡相关事件的应急响应活动提供机器人、传感和人工智能方面的综合解决方案。该中心建立在这三个机构的计算机科学、工程、人为因素和心理学的多学科研究人员的知识和专长的基础上。更新和扩大的中心将取得成功，因为它建立在最初五年运营期间形成的现有实力的基础上。该中心还将教育和培训行业和政府的研究人员。拟议中的中心的更广泛影响是从根本上从各个方面改善国土防务。拟建的中心将鼓励合作，并将培育一个新兴的研究领域和相关产业，从而帮助确定该领域的挑战以及可接受的研究和评估方法。SSR-RC将使学生和教职员工接触到对行业有价值的最先进的研究项目，并计划吸引大公司进入SSR领域，并为创新的初创公司注入活力。学生将有机会与会员一起进行行业实习。SSR-RC的教职员工将继续通过各种I/UCRC补充方案积极招聘妇女和少数族裔研究生，并为代表性不足群体的中学生举办年度夏令营。

0934327 University of Minnesota (UMN); Nikolas Papanikolopoulos 0934413 University of Denver (UD); Richard Voyles The purpose of this proposal is to renew and expand the Center for Center for Safety, Security and Rescue Research (SSR-RC) as an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. This proposal is based upon UMN's successful completion of five years of operation of the SSR-RC; and the commitment by companies to join a research site at the University of Denver. UMN will be the lead research site for SSR-RC with the University of Pennsylvania (joined the Center a few years ago) and the University of Denver as research partners. This proposal covers the renewal for the second-five years of UMN and the expansion to include UD. The proposed Center will provide integrative robotics, sensing, and artificial intelligence solutions in robotics for activities conducted by the police, FBI, FEMA, transportation safety, and emergency response to mass casualty-related events. The Center is built upon the knowledge and expertise of multi-disciplinary researchers in computer science, engineering, human factors, and psychology at the three institutions. The renewed and expanded Center will be successful because it builds on existing strengths developed during the first five years of operation. The Center will also educate and train researchers for industry and government. The broader impact of the proposed center is to radically improve homeland defense in all dimensions. The proposed Center will encourage collaboration, and will nurture an emerging field of research and the associated industries, thus helping to establish the challenges of the field and acceptable research and evaluation methodologies. SSR-RC will expose students and faculty to state-of-the-art research projects of value to the industry, and plans to attract large companies to the SSR domains and energize innovative start-up companies. Students will have opportunities for industrial internships with members. Faculty in the SSR-RC will continue to aggressively recruit women and minority graduate students through the various I/UCRC supplemental programs, and to host annual summer camps for middle-schoolers from under-represented groups.