Center of Excellence: Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments
Abstract
The main research objectives of our center will pursue four main areas: In Thrust 1, we will develop notions of resilient, resource?aware control theory. Thrust 2 will consider embodied intelligence that exploits physicality in active learning across semantic and metric domains as well as inductive learning architectures for autonomous systems. Research Thrust 3 will focus on assured autonomy in the presence of, possibly adversarial, machine learning components. Thrust 4 will redefine wireless communications and networking for resilient collaborative behaviors by introducing a notion of autonomy in wireless networking. A fundamental outcome of the center will be cultivating a new community of researchers across academia and AFRL researchers that will embrace the CoE vision. The long term impact of our center will be in the hands of our PhD students and postdocs that will be supported by the center and collaborate with or employed by AFRL. Center results will be disseminated via conference and journal publications, presentations, posters, and PhD theses. In addition to students and publications, there is a wide range of technology deliverables, software tools, and hardware demonstrations. Our goal is that all research tasks, and hence all investigators, integrate the task technology in at least one major AFRL demonstration.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 14, 2022
- Source ID
- FA95501910265
Entities
People
- George J. Pappas
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- University of Pennsylvania