PAWR Platform AERPAW: Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless

该项目将为2019 - 2024年期间在北卡罗来纳州的罗利部署的先进无线研究创建一个城市规模的平台。该平台名为AERPAW：先进无线空中实验和研究平台将专注于无人机系统（UAS）领域新兴的先进无线技术的新用例。虽然目前大多数UAS操作都需要飞行员和无人机之间的视觉视线（VLOS），但蜂窝网络和先进的无线技术将实现超视距和自主UAS操作，从而为UAS释放三维移动性。在这个项目中，一个世界领先的研究团队将创建一个国家卓越中心，提供基础知识和一个专注于这一领域的重要国家试验平台。AERPAW将是一个独一无二的空中无线实验平台，也是新兴创新的试验场和技术推动者，包括包裹交付平台和城市空中移动。它将加速电信、交通、基础设施监测、农业和公共安全等领域变革性进步和突破的开发、验证和测试。AERPAW将带来由UAS和物联网（IoT）技术支持的新业务用例，并将在未来几十年内成为国家的长期资产。从AERPAW收集的数据将成为全国教育工作者和研究生/本科生的宝贵资源。夏季研讨会，短期和长期的学生设计挑战，以及远程实验室将率先采取新的方法来吸引和教育各级学生以及地方和国家社区。该项目小组由北卡罗来纳州州立大学（NCSU）的研究人员领导沿着密西西比州立大学和北卡罗来纳州无线研究中心的研究人员也参与了该项目。在高级无线研究平台（PAWR）项目办公室的监督下，该团队将设计、部署、运营和维护AERPAW。AERPAW将有两个主要目标：1）加速UAS与国家空域的整合; 2）为UAS平台提供新的先进无线功能，包括用于热点无线连接的飞行基站。该团队将设计、部署和运营一个革命性的UAS实验平台，以支持5G无线系统及其他系统的高级研究，并支持移动即服务的实验。AERPAW将为用户提供可访问的地面和空中无线节点，用户可以携带自己的节点或网络组件，自动化实验规范/执行以及数据提供/管理。关于访问该PAWR平台的信息可在www.example.com上获得https://www.advancedwireless.orgThis奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

This project will create a city-scale platform for advanced wireless research to be deployed over the period 2019 - 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The platform, called AERPAW: Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless, will focus on new use cases for advanced wireless technologies that are emerging in the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) space. While most UAS operations presently require visual line-of-sight (VLOS) between a pilot and the drone, cellular networks and advanced wireless technologies will enable beyond-VLOS and autonomous UAS operations, unleashing three-dimensional mobility for UAS. In this project, a world-leading team of researchers will create a national center of excellence to provide fundamental knowledge and a vital national testbed focused on this area. AERPAW will be a one-of-its-kind aerial wireless experimentation platform and a proving ground and technological enabler for emerging innovations, including package delivery platforms and urban air mobility. It will accelerate development, verification, and testing of transformative advances and breakthroughs in telecommunications, transportation, infrastructure monitoring, agriculture, and public safety, among others. AERPAW will bring new business use cases enabled by UAS and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and will become a long-term national asset for decades to come. The data collected from AERPAW will be an invaluable resource for educators, and graduate/undergraduate students across the nation. Summer workshops, short-term and long-term student design challenges, as well as remote laboratories will spearhead new approaches to engage and educate students at all levels as well as the local and national communities. The project team is led by researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) along with researchers participating from Mississippi State University and Wireless Research Center of North Carolina. With oversight from the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office, this team will design, deploy, operate, and sustain AERPAW. AERPAW will have two major goals: 1) to accelerate the integration of UAS into the national air-space; and 2) to enable new advanced wireless features for UAS platforms, including flying base stations for hot spot wireless connectivity. The team will design, deploy, and operate a revolutionary UAS experimentation platform to support advanced research on 5G wireless systems and beyond, in addition to supporting experiments on mobility-as-a-service. AERPAW will provide accessible ground and aerial wireless nodes for users, the possibility for users to bring their own nodes or network components, automated experiment specification/execution, as well as data provisioning/management. Information on the access to this PAWR platform is available on https://www.advancedwireless.orgThis 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.