Planning IUCRC at Texas A&M University: Center for Ocean System Simulation and Control

海洋系统对美国的福祉至关重要，通过航运和港口系统提供货物，通过近海石油、天然气和可再生能源开发提供能源，通过基于海洋的国防系统提供国家安全。将自主系统整合到海洋系统中，有可能通过以下方式显著影响这些基本行业：降低成本，并通过运输船的无人驾驶导航、开发用于海洋测量或防御活动的水下无人机、用于车辆和平台操作和控制的数字孪生开发以及为开发有竞争力的可再生能源技术而优化设计来实现新的行业进步。海洋系统模拟与控制中心(COSSC)致力于将多保真计算建模技术与物理传感器系统相结合，以推进智能海洋系统受控运行的基础研究，包括使用先进材料、使用分布式传感、车辆和平台的自主性和创新性、节能以及流体结构动态建模。根据行业提供的研究兴趣投入，这两个网站将组成包括未被充分代表的学生在内的多元化研究小组，为年轻一代组织外展计划，并为行业专业人员设计短期课程。该中心规划阶段的目标是评估该中心的可行性，两个地点分别位于德克萨斯农工大学(TAMU)和罗德岛大学(URI)。该项目将包括一次规划会议，与该中心潜在的行业成员会面，介绍基础研究课题，并开发一套初步的行业审查研究项目，以形成该中心的研究基础。TAMU网站将专注于近海油气和造船领域的行业合作，例如智能近海系统健康监测、流固耦合建模、极端载荷事件的CFD、浮船几何形状的优化以及CFD建模中的复杂性降低等研究课题。URI网站将重点关注国防和海洋可再生能源领域的行业合作，例如快速CFD混合方法、基于重建海况的浮动飞行器运动控制、微型UUV的流体动力学建模、移动飞行器数字双胞胎以及波能转换器与海洋沉积物的相互作用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Ocean systems are critical to the well-being of the United States, providing goods through shipping and port systems, providing energy through offshore oil, gas, and renewable development, and providing national security through ocean based national defense systems. The integration of autonomy into ocean systems has the potential to significantly impact these fundamental industries by reducing costs and enabling new industry advances through unmanned navigation of transport vessels, development of underwater drones for oceanographic surveying or defense activities, digital twin development for operation and control of vehicles and platforms, and optimization in design for the development of competitive renewable energy technologies. The Center for Ocean System Simulation and Control (COSSC) seeks to integrate multi-fidelity computational modeling techniques with physical sensor systems to advance fundamental research in the controlled operation of smart ocean systems, including the use of advanced materials, the use of distributed sensing, autonomy and innovation of vehicles and platforms, energy savings, and fluid-structure dynamic modeling. Based on the research interests inputs given by the industry, both sites will form diversified research groups including underrepresented students, organize outreach programs for young generations, and design short courses for industry professionals. The objective of this planning phase of the center is to assess the viability of the center, with two sites located at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and the University of Rhode Island (URI). This project will include a planning meeting to meet with prospective industry members of the center to present fundamental research topics and develop a set of initial industry vetted research projects to form the research basis of the center. The TAMU site will focus on industry collaborations in offshore oil and gas and shipbuilding, with example research topics in smart offshore system health monitoring, coupled fluid-structure modeling, CFD of extreme loading events, optimization of floating vessel geometry, and complexity reduction in CFD modeling. The URI site will focus on industry collaborations in defense and ocean renewable energy with example research topics in fast CFD hybrid methods, floating vehicle motion control from reconstructed sea states, hydrodynamic modeling for micro UUVs, moving vehicle digital twins, and interaction of wave energy converters with marine sediments.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.