FY 2016 Environmental Management Awards
The Energy Department is awarding over $5.7 million for 2 Integrated Research Projects (IRPs) that will deliver solutions to high priority environmental management research challenges and robotics.
IRP award recipients are listed below.
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Title |
Lead University
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Funding Amount* |
Project Description |
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NEUP Project 16-10915: Development of Mobile Manipulation and Survey System for H-Canyon and other Applications across the DOE Complex | University of Texas at Austin | $2,763,375 | Researchers will develop and deliver a mobile manipulation and survey system capable of meeting the requirements necessary to properly inspect and survey the H-Canyon air ventilation tunnels at Savannah River Site. |
NEUP Project 16-11000: Localized Imaging, Surveying and Mapping for Nuclearized Underwater Robots | Carnegie Mellon University | $2,998,214 | This initiative develops, demonstrates and infuses a leap of sensing, robotics, spatial positioning and visualization capability into underwater nuclear operations. The project will develop and demonstrate a prototype robotic system to maneuver in a basin, obtain hi-resolution color video, perform SLAM, map radiation, deploy NDE sensing, and integrate/correlate data for analysis, visualization and simulation. |
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Total |
$5,761,589 |
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The Energy Department is also awarding a collaborative project between U.S. and Japanese institutions to address issues surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The Japenese will be awarding up to $525,000 to the collaborating Japenese contingent.
