Augmenting First Responders’ Cognitive Performance for Responses to Electric Vehicle Emergencies

Dr. Yangming Shi and his co-PIs, Dr. Jun Liu, Dr. Xinwu Qian, Dr. Krishna Shah, Dr. Laura Myers received a National Science Foundation grant. Their project will develop new methods to help responders to deal with future Electrical Vehicle-Related emergency responses.

EV fires burn hotter, longer, and take more resources to extinguish than fires involving vehicles with traditional combustion engines.

UA Wins Cooperative NSF Award to Research EV Sustainability

In this multi-phase project, faculty from The University of Alabama will collaborate with The University of Louisville, Arizona State University, and The University of Texas at Austin as part of the NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems.

Utilizing partnerships with corporate, government, and academic entities, the UA EVSTS center site focuses on sustainable electrified vehicles through site-specific research areas, magnetic materials for electric motors and generators, ferrite spoke-type motors for electric trucks, highperformance electric motor controls, and machine learning-based vehicle component prognostics.

The objective of this Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier planning research project is to test the feasibility of the immersive training platform’s framework for future EV related emergency responses.

There are three major objectives:

1 | Conduct a nationwide survey followed by focus group meetings to understand existing EV-related emergency response workflows.

2 | Design and develop the framework of the immersive training platform that can augment first responders’ cognitive performance learn more about fw-htf grants on nsf.gov

3 | Share the initial findings with researchers and other stakeholders to test the viability of the proposed training framework and formulate a detailed road map for future work.

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