2023 Sept. 19 eCAT - The Center for Electric, Connected & Autonomous Technologies for Mobility @UNT
On Tuesday (9-19-23) Song Fu, Ph.D, Professor at UNT
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spoke at the IEEE CVT luncheon at UT Dallas.
Song Fu is now the Site Director for the NSF eCAT Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility, as well as Director of UNT's Vehicle and Edge Computing Laboratory
Professor Fu presented a brief introduction of eCAT:
eCAT is short for "The Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility" and was officially approved and supported by the US National Science Foundation in March 2023.
eCAT’s mission is to develop and deploy next-generation electrification, resilient sensing/perception, real-time edge computing, and smart infrastructure techniques to achieve higher safety and efficiency, aiming to initiate and accelerate the transformation of mobility methods from conventional vehicles to electric, connected, and autonomous vehicles by creating essential and innovative technologies.
The Center’s strategic directions include:
• Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• Infrastructure
• Mobility Solutions
More information regarding the Center can be found at https://www.ecat.center/
There are a range of advantages for Center members including limiting university research project overhead to 10%, access to the students, faculty, and facilities at the participating universities, connection to other industry members, industry defining research roadmap, and many more.
In addition to UNT, the Center’s university partners include Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), the University of Delaware (Newark, DE), and Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY). More universities are planning to join the Center.