 |
Professor Jeffrey Herrmann (ME/ISR) is the principal investigator for a one-year, $100K National Science Foundation grant, Planning Infrastructure for Collaborative Autonomy Testing.
This project will lay the foundation for a modeling and simulation infrastructure to reduce R&D barriers and facilitate collaboration for autonomous systems. Co-PIs are Professor Derek Paley (AE/ISR), ISR-affiliated Professors Adam Porter (CS/UMIACS), and Dinesh Manocha (ECE/CS/UMIACS), and Assistant Professor Pratap Tokekar (CS/UMIACS).
Increasingly, robotics research is focusing on teams of autonomous ground robots and unmanned vehicles for both civilian and military purposes such as search-and-rescue, mining, material handling, and protecting secure facilities. Computer scientists and engineers are inventing and enhancing new algorithms that these autonomous systems will use to better collaborate with each other. Currently, testing the algorithms requires extensive time and resources spent in setting up and running simulation models, plus using other facilities needed in the processes of testing, evaluation, validation and verification.
This project will plan a more ideal community research infrastructure. Planning will include a broad-based community of researchers from multiple institutions, including experts in robotics systems, modeling and simulation, test and evaluation, and software engineering. The planning group will develop use cases, design infrastructure architecture and identify key partners.
A resulting proposal will include recommendations for hardware, software, APIs, user interfaces, libraries of models, a development and testing environment, and documentation.
Related Articles:
UMD, UMBC, ARL Announce Cooperative Agreement to Accelerate AI, Autonomy in Complex Environments
With MIPS funding, Herrmann and Azarm developing algorithm for ice forecasting app
Diving Deeper into Competition, and Recruitment
Yu Named Elkins Professor
Miao Yu receives NSF funding to develop ice-measuring sensors
Modi Briefed on UMD-led Aquaculture Research
Newly-Opened SMART Building to Spur Autonomy Research
USMSM Debuts SMART Innovation Center
Two Clark School teams take top spots in VFS micro air vehicle competition
Public health planners: Free resources for emergency health clinics
September 30, 2021
|
