美国国家航天局（NASA）遴选大学团队助力航空研究进展

美国国家航天局（NASA）遴选了四个大学团队，通过从高超声速推进系统到城市小型飞机低噪声航线等一系列项目，助力该机构实现航空业的未来转型。

NASA has selected four university teams to help the agency transform the future of aviation through projects ranging from high-supersonic propulsion systems to low-noise routes for small aircraft flying through cities.

该机构通过其大学领导力计划（University Leadership Initiative）进行拨款，为学生团队提供了参与现实飞行研究的机会，以推进NASA在航空学领域的目标。

The agency made awards through its University Leadership Initiative, which offers student teams the opportunity to contribute to real-world flight research that advances NASA’s goals in aeronautics.

今年的获奖者所追求的项目与NASA的战略目标保持一致，包括商业高速飞机的创新、能够带来变革性航空突破的新工具开发、更安全高效的空中交通管理，以及将新的航空运输选择整合到国家空域中。

This year’s awardees are pursuing projects that align with NASA strategic objectives, including innovation in commercial high-speed aircraft, the development of new tools that can lead to transformational aviation breakthroughs, safer and more efficient air traffic management, and the integration of new air transportation options into the national airspace.

“随着这四个新奖项的颁发，大学创新项目正致力于实现NASA航空任务的优先事项，”NASA克利夫兰格伦研究中心（Glenn Research Center）的项目经理Andrew Provenza表示。“这些团队将研究用于超声速飞行的全新推进概念、能够彻底改变航空航天系统设计与认证的新型工程方法，以及用于新型先进城市空中交通飞行器平台的学习型航空电子设备，这将有助于加强空中交通管制的现代化。”

“With these four new awards, the University Innovation project is leaning in on NASA’s aeronautics mission priorities,” said Andrew Provenza, project manager, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. “These teams will research new propulsion concepts for supersonic flight, novel engineering methods that can revolutionize aerospace system design and certification, and learning-enabled avionics for new advanced and urban air mobility flight vehicle platforms, which could enhance air traffic control modernization.”

这些奖项代表了NASA大学领导力计划的第九轮资助。

The awards represent the ninth round of NASA University Leadership Initiative funding.

NASA的奖项总额约为3000万美元，将为获奖大学提供多年期支持，以组建团队并开展研究。该计划为学生提供了实践经验，在培养美国航空研究人才队伍的同时，也产生了有助于推动航空业发展的研究成果。

Totaling about $30 million, NASA’s awards will provide multiyear support for awardee universities to build their teams and conduct research. The initiative provides hands-on experiences for students, developing the U.S. aeronautics research workforce while also producing findings that will help drive aviation forward.

大学领导力计划的奖项授予由研究生和本科生组成并由教职人员领导的团队。获奖者与包括其他大学、社区学院以及工业界在内的机构建立了学术合作伙伴关系。来自NASA、美国联邦航空管理局（Federal Aviation Administration）和其他组织的专家提供了支持与指导。

University Leadership Initiative awards go to teams comprised of graduate and undergraduate students and led by faculty members. Recipients form academic partnerships with other universities and community colleges, as well as industry. Experts from NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and other organizations provide support and guidance.

获奖者包括：

The awardees are:

明尼苏达大学（University of Minnesota）

University of Minnesota

下一代交通的自适应超声速联合循环发动机

Adaptive Supersonic Combined Cycle Engine for Next-generation Transportation

在Terrence Meyer的领导下，该项目将在四年内致力于开发一种燃料灵活的推进系统，该系统在起飞和亚声速飞行期间使用传统的喷气式涡轮风扇发动机，但在超声速飞行时会转换为一种新型冲压发动机。在冲压模式下，该系统将以4马赫或超过3000英里/小时的速度巡航。该项目旨在实现高效的超声速飞行，包括以超声速（supersonic speed）进行的飞行。

Led by Terrence Meyer, the project will work over four years to develop a fuel-flexible propulsion system that uses a traditional jet turbofan during takeoff and subsonic flight, but would transition to a new type of ramjet engine for supersonic flight. In ramjet mode, the system would cruise at Mach 4, or more than 3,000 mph. The project aims to enable efficient, faster-than-sound flight, including flight at high-supersonic speeds.

斯坦福大学（Stanford University）

Stanford University

学习型航空电子系统全生命周期的安全性：安全数据飞轮

Safety Across Lifecycle of Learning-Enabled Avionics Systems: Safety Data Flywheel

在Somil Bansal的领导下，这个为期四年的项目旨在开发一种航空电子系统，以控制飞机的通信、导航和其他结合了机器学习的电子设备。该系统将采取一种确保在整个运行过程中持续加强安全性的方法。这项研究有助于为航空业建立一个框架，将人工智能驱动的航空电子设备安全地整合到国家空域中。

Led by Somil Bansal, this four-year project aims to develop an avionics system to control an aircraft’s communications, navigation, and other electronics that incorporates machine learning. The system would take an approach that ensures safety is continuously reinforced throughout its operations. This research could help create a framework for the aviation sector to safely integrate artificial intelligence-enabled avionics into the national airspace.

斯坦福大学（Stanford University）

Stanford University

城市空中交通运营的噪声优化轨迹规划，包括环境噪声

Noise-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Urban Air Mobility Operations, Including Ambient Noise

在Juan Alonso的领导下，通过该奖项建立的中心将在四年内致力于开发一个高保真模拟框架，专注于为未来的小型飞机开发城市环境中的低噪声（low noise）飞行路径。开发人员设想将城市空中交通飞行器作为在人口稠密地区运送人员和货物的方式。该中心将整合声音在城市中传播的真实模型，以实现能够减少新空中交通对社区噪声影响的飞行路径。

Led by Juan Alonso, the center created through this award will work over four years to develop a high-fidelity simulation framework focused on developing low-noise flight paths in urban environments for future small aircraft. Developers are envisioning urban air mobility aircraft as ways to move people and cargo over populated areas. This center would integrate realistic models of how sound travels in cities to enable vehicle flight paths that would reduce community noise exposure from new air traffic.

弗吉尼亚理工大学（Virginia Tech）

Virginia Tech

不确定性下的认证驱动型飞机设计

Certification Driven Aircraft Design Under Uncertainty

在Darshan Sarojini的领导下，这个为期三年的项目提议通过整合强大的新型计算机模型（computer model）工具来变革下一代飞机设计：基于模型的系统工程、多学科设计、分析与优化，以及高维不确定性量化。其目标是实现安全、快速且高效的建模，从而减少飞机开发周期后期昂贵的设计变更。

Led by Darshan Sarojini, this three-year project proposes to transform next-generation aircraft design while integrating powerful new computer modeling tools: model-based systems engineering, multidisciplinary design, analysis and optimization, and high-dimensional uncertainty quantification. The goal is safe, faster, and more efficient modeling that results in fewer costly redesigns later in the aircraft development cycle.

十多年来，NASA的大学领导力计划一直致力于培养大胆的创意、协作研究和团队主导的解决方案。该计划是NASA研究与技术任务理事会（Research and Technology Mission Directorate）的一部分。

For more than 10 years, NASA’s University Leadership Initiative has fostered bold ideas, collaborative research, and team-led solutions. The initiative is part of NASA’s Research and Technology Mission Directorate.