Centre for Innovation and Research into Unmanned Systems

南阿尔伯塔理工学院（SAIT）正在申请NSERC创新增强基金，以支持最近创建的无人系统创新和研究中心（CIRUS）的发展。CIRUS旨在支持应用研究，旨在解决三个主要领域的行业挑战：无人驾驶车辆、传感器和相关设备的创新应用；应用程序定制;验证和集成来自无人系统的数据产品。CIRUS将成为领先的无人机（UAV）研究中心和行业高素质人才的主要供应商，并将成为中小企业和更成熟公司应用研究的合作伙伴。另外的合作协议已经与最重要的无人系统中心建立，该中心目前是加拿大唯一被许可用于无人机测试的超视距设施。CIRUS还与阿尔伯塔省的其他学院及其教师建立了联系，通过一个渐进的7个AB学院合作伙伴关系和BC省的一个学院。NSERC拨款将用于为CIRUS的成立和运作提供一个稳定的财政环境。国家科学研究委员会的资金将由行业对中心开展的各种联合研究项目的贡献来补充，这些额外的资金将通过行业捐赠和针对个人研究项目的各种联邦和省级资助计划来提供。CIRUS开展的研究将补充SAIT的无人系统和相关课程的并行开发，并将为学生培训提供一个独特的场所。通过与工业界密切合作，该中心将为学生提供从事尖端研究的机会，这些研究与阿尔伯塔省乃至整个加拿大迅速扩大无人机的采用直接相关。

The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) is requesting NSERC Innovation Enhancement fundingto support the development of the recently-created Centre for Innovation and Research into Unmanned Systems(CIRUS). CIRUS is designed to support applied research aimed at addressing industry challenges in three mainareas: innovative applications of unmanned vehicles, sensors and related equipment; application customisation;and validation and integration of data products derived from unmanned systems. CIRUS will act as a leadingunmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research centre and a key supplier of highly qualified personnel to industry,and will function as a partner in applied research for both SMEs, and for more established companies.Additional partnership agreements have been established with the Foremost Centre for Unmanned Systems,which is currently the only licenced beyond visual line of sight facility in Canada for UAV testing. CIRUS hasalso developed links with other Alberta colleges and their faculty, through a progressive seven AB collegepartnership and one college in BC. NSERC funding will be used to provide a stable financial environment forthe establishment and operation of CIRUS through its first five years. NSERC funds will be complemented byindustry contributions to the various joint research projects undertaken at the centre, both with additionalfunding provided through industry donations, and through various federal and provincial funding initiativesspecific to individual research projects. The research carried out by CIRUS will complement the paralleldevelopment of unmanned systems and related curriculum at SAIT, and will provide a unique venue forstudent training. By working closely with industry, the centre will provide students with the opportunity towork on cutting-edge research, directly related to the rapidly-expanding adoption of UAVs both in Alberta, andin Canada as a whole.