Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
77 University of North Texas (141965)
Principal Investigator: Fu,Song
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 600,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 3/15/23 - 2/29/28
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Computer Science & Engineering
Department, Center, School, or Institute: College of Engineering
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: IUCRC Phase I University of North Texas: Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility (eCAT)
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Science Foundation
CFDA Link: NSF
47.070
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Note:
The size of the global autonomous vehicle market is projected to be $45.3 billion by 2025 in which partially autonomous vehicles take $38.9 billion and fully autonomous vehicles share $6.4 billion. Our communities are now excited by the success in making autonomous vehicles usable in scientific research, but fully autonomous vehicles entering into our daily life is still far from reality. A key obstacle to the development of practical Electric, Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (eCAV) systems is the shortage of synergy research from interdisciplinary domains, including electric vehicle design, intelligent autonomous systems, V2X communication technologies, and vehicular edge computing, which are traditionally orthogonal and developed in parallel to each other. On the other hand, the state-of-the-art lab research is superior in quality to that of electric autonomous vehicles available in the market. However, due to a lack of communication channels between academia and industry, laboratory research does not even have a chance to show it to the market. In coping with those issues, the proposed eCAT Center will concentrate on interdisciplinary research centered around electric and connected autonomous vehicles. Furthermore, the center not only serves as an apparatus of academic researchers collaborating with industry on problems of high national and international importance, but also provides industry partners with opportunities to access advanced synergic research produced from a diverse group of researchers. Especially, the University of North Texas (UNT) Site will collaborate with other academic sites by building on prior and ongoing trans-disciplinary work in technology to develop perception algorithms and system architectures to support connected and autonomous vehicles. The UNT Site will leverage the broad range of expertise in the above areas and combine enthusiastic support from regional and national automobile companies, next-generation edge computing platforms, and leading telecom operators, and close connections with non-profit organizations and government agencies in Texas.
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