Autonomous Systems Initiative

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Dimitris Pados (PI/PD), George Sklivanitis (Co-PI)
• Duration: Apr. 2020-Mar. 2023

Overview:  (i) Blind evaluation/screening of incoming sensed data of autonomous platforms and (ii) data quality assessment in training sets.

• National Science Foundation
• Dimitris Pados (FAU PI/PD), George Sklivanitis (FAU Senior Personnel)
• Duration: Aug. 2020-Jul. 2021

Overview:  A planning grant for the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center).

• National Science Foundation
• Dimitris Pados (FAU PI/PD), George Sklivanitis (FAU Co-PI)
• Duration: Sep. 2020-Aug. 2023

Overview:  Research in novel low-cost hardware-reduced and multi-parameter reconfigurable ultra-wideband transceivers that optimize passive-active spectrum sharing across a broad frequency range.

• National Science Foundation
• Dimitris Pados (PI/PD), Nancy Romance(Co-PI), Stella Batalama (Co-PI), Xingquan Zhu (Co-PI), Javad Hashemi (Co-PI)
• Duration: Sep. 2020-Aug. 2024

Overview:  This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Florida Atlantic University, a Hispanic Serving Institution.

• Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) - Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC)
• Zhen Ni (FAU PI/PD)
• Duration: Jun. 2020-May 2023

Overview:  The project is to expand the Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) capabilities through artificial intelligence to static undersea sensors and/or dynamic undersea groups. The proposed research is to improve the autonomous perception and data fusion in an effort to generate world models from individual sensing, while localizing the sensors and UUV swarm within the model. This project is in collaboration with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and NUWC Keyport Division.

• NATO Center for Maritime Research
• George Sklivanitis (PI/PD), Dimitris Pados (Co-PI)
• Duration: Jul. 2020-Oct. 2020

Overview:  Analysis of physical layer security algorithms for underwater acoustic networks.

• FAU I-SENSE & FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science
• Dimitris Pados (PI/PD), George Sklivanitis (Co-PI), Abhijit Pandya (Co-PI), Zvi Roth (Co-PI)
• Seed Funding Recipient 2020

• FAU I-SENSE & FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science
• Siddhartha Verma (PI/PD), Dimitris Pados (PI/PD), Oscar Curet (Co-PI), George Sklivanitis (Co-PI), Yufei Tang (Co-PI)
• Seed Funding Recipient 2019

• FAU I-SENSE & FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science
• Aditya Nayak (PI/PD) , George Sklivanitis (Co-PI), Dimitris Pados (PI/PD)
• Seed Funding Recipient 2019

• National Science Foundation
• Xiangnan Zhong (PI/PD)
• Duration: Aug. 2019-Jul. 2022

Overview:  An innovative reinforcement learning approach for decision making in complex environments.

• National Science Foundation
• Xiangnan Zhong (PI/PD)
• Duration: Jul. 2019-Feb. 2021

Overview:  Learning in a connected multi-agent environment - a new self-learning intelligent control framework.

• National Science Foundation
• Dimitris Pados (PI/PD), Stella Batalama (Co-PI)
• Duration: Oct. 2017-Sept. 2020

Overview:  The researchers aim at advancing significantly (five-fold in precision) the state of the art in 3D passive undersea acoustic localization by providing novel algorithmic solutions to the problem of estimating the angle of arrival of undersea propagating signals in the presence of potentially faulty measurements. The project pursues a paradigm shift in how signal Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) estimation is carried out over undersea acoustic links by deviating from the familiar L2-norm-subspace decomposition theory and its variants and considering for the first time L1-norm signal subspace decomposition. The algorithms will be embedded in in-house developed programmable underwater acoustic modems to form an experimental four-node network for evaluation and demonstration.

• National Science Foundation
• Stella Batalama (Co-PI), Dimitris Pados (PI/PD), George Sklivanitis (Co-PI)
• Duration: Sep. 2020-Aug. 2021

Overview:  Research in robust massive MIMO localization using the POWDER-RENEW NSF Platform for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR).