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Find similar grantsBio-Inspired Autonomous Systems is sponsored by Office of Naval Research (ONR). Aims to extract principles of sensorimotor control, biomechanics, and fluid dynamics from aquatic and amphibious animals to inform the development of agile, stealthy, efficient, and sensory-adapted autonomous systems.
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Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems The aim of Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems is to extract principles of sensorimotor control, biomechanics and fluid dynamics of underwater propulsion and control in aquatic and amphibious animals that underlie the agility, stealth, efficiency and sensory adaptations of these animals. The principles that emerge from this interdisciplinary research are formalized and explored in advanced prototypes.
The goal of this program is to expand the operational envelope of Navy underwater and amphibious vehicles and enable enhanced underwater manipulation.
Research Concentration Areas Bio-Inspired propulsion and control Bio-sensing for sensorimotor control Soft-robotic manipulation Research Challenges and Opportunities Interdisciplinary basic research to identify, model and emulate the principles of biomechanics, hydrodynamics and neural control in aquatic swimming organisms Interdisciplinary basic research on bio-sensing in underwater organisms (including lateral line flow and pressure sensing, bio-sonar, electro-sense and optic flow) in the context of closed-loop sensorimotor control, navigation and obstacle avoidance Basic research on the mechanisms and role of sensing in fish schooling to enable new models of coordination and swarming of underwater vehicles Applied research on the development of novel advanced prototypes of bio-inspired underwater and cross-domain vehicles Basic research on bio-inspired design principles of distributed sensing, actuation and control in soft biological structures and appendages combined with the development of novel multi-functional soft materials for revolutionary integrated soft robotic capabilities, including locomotion and manipulation Basic and applied research on the development of arms and grippers that exploit soft elastomeric materials which are capable of complex manipulation (in water or air), are able to lift significant loads, and reversibly attach to surfaces Basic and applied research to extract the principles of mobility in amphibious animals in order to develop bio-inspired designs for amphibious vehicles that can transition between the surf zone and beach For detailed application and submission information for this research topic, please refer to our broad agency announcement (BAA) No. N0001425SB001 .
Contracts: All white papers and full proposals for contracts must be submitted through the ONR Submission Portal ; instructions are included in the BAA. Grants: All white papers for grants must be submitted through the ONR Submission Portal , and full proposals for grants must be submitted through grants. gov ; instructions are included in the BAA.
Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems, Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems and Cognitive Science for Human Machine Teaming Program Officer thomas. m. mckenna4.
civ@us. navy. mil
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NOFO N0001426SF004 offers roughly 25 awards at $750,000 over 36 months to first- and second-appointment faculty. No cost share, no white paper stage — and an eligibility clock that admits PhDs earned on or after January 1, 2019 and nobody earlier. The program officer conversation, not the proposal, is the part most applicants get wrong.
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