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About the Science of Embodied Autonomy Consortium:
The Science of Embodied Autonomy Consortium: a transdisciplinary research community focused on technical excellence and scientific rigor in autonomy.
The SEA Consortium expands the boundaries of scientific understanding and harnesses technological progress in physically-embodied autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI). Our central mission is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the fundamental principles that govern autonomy when realized within physical systems.
We focus on the mismatch between current generalist AI construction methods and the specificity of real-world aerospace vehicle physics constraints. This discipline is essential for translating AI proliferation into reliable, hands-on interactions with engineered platforms.
The consortium works to provide reliable and sustainable AI by integrating AI development, physical platform development, and the translational principles between them. Our technical approach involves the invariant-based pruning of generalist AI, leveraging underlying science while integrating with current market forces. Key engineering outcomes include developing new architectures for embedded systems, significantly reducing power and cooling demands for more sustainable AI. We serve as a leading platform-informed integration principle developer for AI technology, primarily focused on aerospace and maritime platforms.
The consortium facilitates a curated conversation among interested parties as a primarily visiting institution, engaging several hundred outside professionals annually alongside a smaller core staff of local team members. This regular interchange and cross flow creates the necessary partnerships and support needed to build large, project-focused teams. Technical progress is accelerated through smaller workshops involving key participants invited from the research, industry, and government communities.
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We believe the Embodied Autonomy Renaissance must confront fundamental challenges to provide reliable autonomy in the physical world. Core questions focus on investigating areas like what are the conserved quantities in embodied autonomy?
Partnership opportunities with the SEA Consortium
Growth beyond our existing individual resources requires engaging external voices and thought schools. We invite researchers, industry, and government partners to join this effort to formalize executable goals and form mission-focused growth teams.
We work through various forms of partnership, including:
• Research Collaboration: Engage in collaborative experiments, co-funded appointments, contribute to large-scale grant efforts (such as MURIs, ERCs, IUCRCs, and ULIs), and participate in our technical interchange workshops and flight testing. Our research partners include engineers, computer scientists, neuroscientists, roboticists, and air and maritime vehicle designers.
• Industry Engagement: Participate in IUCRC-like problem definition and results-sharing. Corporate partners are essential for underwriting field exercises and supporting cohort fellows through the SEA Business Network, through which they receive advance access to community results, the ability to influence the focus areas, and relationships with a industry partners able to provide updated algorithms. Our industry partners range from startups to established Fortune 500 companies, generally technologically focused on AI, robotics, or computer science in specific application domains.
• Active Participation: Join our cadre of visiting experts. Researchers are encouraged to contribute to the effort for a defined period of time, and then leave to "spread the word."
• Field Exercises: Leverage large Oklahoma and partner test ranges for air exercises or participate in coordinate maritime exercises hosted at participating member sites.