Graduate and undergraduate students from three university groups will work to solve aviation problems and improve flight in the 21st century, NASA said Tuesday.
NASA officials said in a press release that the teams “will make direct contributions to real-world flight research while gaining hands-on experience collaborating with partners from other universities and industry.”
Three university teams participated in the competition: Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, University of Colorado at Boulder and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Each team includes faculty and students from many other universities.
“By combining faculty expertise, student ideas and industry experience, these three groups will advance NASA's vision for the future of 21st century aviation,” said NASA University Innovation Manager Koushik Dutta.
Over the next three years, three university teams will receive a total of $20.7 million through the University Leadership Initiative.
The Florida Institute of Technology team will focus on developing a framework for building robust autonomous flight safety systems that could incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning.
A team at the University of Colorado Boulder is exploring complex communications to understand and exploit collaborative and autonomous airspace systems.
A team from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will study self-diagnostic vehicle health management systems that continuously update themselves while increasing the safety and reliability of modern air vehicles.
NASA's University Innovation Project manages the ULI program, which includes the University Undergraduate Research Competition and the Gateways to Blue Skies competition.
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