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Call for Proposals

Draft Call for Proposals FY20 (doc)
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Proposal Template (doc)

CRUSER funds NPS Faculty research focused on any aspect of unmanned systems/robotics related research that allign with our chartered mission of "shap[ing] generations of naval officers through education, research, concept generation and experimentation in maritime application of robotics, automation, autonomy and unmanned systems." Proposals are selected during our annual Call for Proposals.  Research that supports the Warfare Innovation Continuum (WIC) Workshop innovation thread concepts  are highly encouraged, but all research related to unmanned systems or robotics will be considered.

Call for proposals for FY19 is currently closed.

Current Funded Research

Unmanned Systems Interoperability Standardization: US Navy and International Community Activities
Dr. Curtis Blais

Short-Term Self-Moving Maritime-Land Mesh Networks
Prof. Alex Bordetsky

A Sourcing Strategy for Scaling Unmanned Mine Countermeasure Capabilities
Dr. John Dillard

Enable Real-Time Access to Underwater Acoustic and Beam-Forming Data on a Hybrid Aqua-Quad Vehicle
Prof. Vlad Dobrokhodov
Dr. Kevin Jones
Dr. Paul Leary

Dynamic Automatic Calibration of Coherent Radar UAV Swarm Arrays
Dr. DavidGarren
Dr. Phil Pace

Distributed Adaptive Submodularity for Mixed-Initiative, UxV Networked Control Systems
Dr. Doug Horner
Dr. Sean Kragelund

Environmental Hardening and At-Sea Testing of the Aqua-Quad Hybrid Platform
Dr. Kevin Jones
Prof. Vlad Dobrokhodov
Dr. Paul Leary

Long endurance, wide-area maritime surveillance system
Dr. John Joseph
Dr. Doug Horner
Dr. Kevin Smith

Multi-Domain Super Swarm: Robust Tactics for Engaging an Attacking Large-Scale Swarm
Prof. Isaac Kaminer
Dr. Claire Walton

3D-Printable Artificial Muscles for UUV propulsion
Dr. Emil Kartalov

Bio-inspired MEMS acoustic sensor for small flying UAS localization
Dist. Prof.Gamani Karunasiri
Dr. Fabio Alves

Identification of Wave Environments that Degrade the Performance of AUVs Operating Near-Surface
Dr. Joseph Klamo
Dist. Prof. Young Kwon

The effect of stress on the decision to rely on automation: An investigation into transparency and anthropomorphism on decision making with autonomy under stress
Dr. Mollie McGuire

Development of Autonomous, Optimized Capabilities for MC3
Prof. Jim Newman
Mr. Gio Minelli

Dynamics and Control of an Autonomous "Tugboat-Spacecraft" to maneuver a passive Resident Space Object
Prof. Marcello Romano

Deterministic Artificial Intelligence for Surmounting Battle Damage
Dr. Timothy Sands, COL., USAF

Acoustic Target Motion Analysis from Novel Autonomous Systems Using Light-Weight, Low-Power Data Acquisition Systems
Prof. Kevin Smith
Prof. Vlad Dobrokhodov

Cybersecurity Evaluation and Testing of the ROS 2 Architecture for Networked UAV Systems
Dr. Preetha Thulasiriaman

Autonomous systems adoption challenges and requirements management solutions
Dr. Douglas Van Bossuyt
Dr. Bryan Mesmer (UAH)
Dr. Kristin Weger (UAH)

Air Superiority via Decentralized Swarming Tactics and Autonomous Pursuit
Prof. Oleg Yakimenko

Past Funded Research