Autonomy Research Center for STEM

California State University, Northridge proposes to establish the Autonomy Research Center for STEM (ARCS), a sustainable multidisciplinary university center of excellence that will significantly contribute to NASA?s research in autonomy for civil aviation and space exploration, while transitioning and commercializing research results to address pressing industry and societal needs. In collaboration with researchers at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center and Je...

FW-HTF-P: Workers and Technology Together (WATT)

Proposed Project The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, ?Climate Change and Land?, estimated that food waste and its loss as energy ?caused between 8 and 10% of the emissions of the gases responsible for global warming in the period 2010-2016?. Of the total methane emissions released from landfills in a given year, food waste accounts for 20%. The efficient capture and safe processing of food waste into energy will have an apprec...

Farmworker Movement Digital Photo Archive, Multimedia Website, and On-Demand Exhibition.

The proposed project will create a digital database of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center's Farmworker Movement Collection using CONTENTdm to digitally preserve the images and enable educational online access. Users will be able to access the database through the University Library Digital Collections website. The digital archive will include 6,600 images. Project activities, which will take place over a 3-year t...

Human Swarming Teaming Platform for Research in Human Automation Trust and Reliance

Researchers at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), in collaboration with researchers and subject matter experts at Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory, the US Air Force Academy, and Edwards Air Force Base and NASA, are currently engaged in DoD research funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Trust and Influence Program. With this proposal, we are seeking support to a...

Fire Student Active Volunteer Experiment (FireSAVE): Improving Fire Recovery Monitoring with In Situ Observations from Minority Serving Institutions in Southern California

The goals for this proposal are separated into two phases corresponding to the solicitation: Pilot Phase 1 (18 months, April 2021 ? September 2022) and Implementation Phase 2 (3 years, October 2022 ? September 2025). The goals for the Pilot Phase are as follows: G1: Develop a comprehensive field guide for field observations...