Active Projects        Completed Projects

 

Active Projects

  1. Reshaping Motor Learning in High-Dimensional Tasks via Soft Robotic Physical Interactions (NSF/CMMI)

  2. Circuit Dynamics of Sensorimotor Integration and Decision Making in Octopus (NIH)

  3. A Smart Panel System for In-situ Detection of Adult Sea Lamprey (Great Lakes Fishery Commission)

  4. Goal-driven Marine Autonomy with Application to Fisheries Science and Management (NSF/IIS)

  5. Soft Robotic Systems for Safe and Accurate Medical Diagnosis and Intervention (MSU Foundation)

  6. A Framework for Human-Team-Supervised Autonomy with Application to Underwater Search and Rescue (NSF/IIS)

  7. Information-driven Autonomous Exploration in Uncertain Underwater Environments (NSF/IIS)

Completed Projects

  1. Road Map for Using Inline Inspection Robot with Integrated Structural Light Sensor in Utility Lines (Gas Technology Institute)

  2. Development of a Controllable Surface for Boundary Flow Studies (Naval Research Laboratory)

  3. Distributed Monitoring of Inflatable Structures (Toyota)

  4. Bio-inspired Underwater Sensing and Control with Mechanosensitive Hairs (ONR/UMD)

  5. CPS: Synergy: Tracking Fish Movement with a School of Gliding Robotic Fish (NSF/ECCS)

  6. A Gliding Robotic Fish-based Mobile Receiver Platform for Acoustic Telemetry in Fishery Research (Great Lakes Fishery Commission)

  7. CyberSEES: Type 2: Towards Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems: A New Adaptive Sampling and Data-Enabled Monitoring and Modeling Framework (NSF/CCF)

  8. Bio-inspired Collaborative Sensing with Novel Gliding Robotic Fish (NSF/IIS)

  9. Novel Vanadium Dioxide-based Self-Sensing Microactuators: Modeling, Control, and Application to Micromanipulation (NSF/CMMI)

  10. RET Site: Robotics Engineering for Better Life and Sustainable Future (NSF-CNS)

  11. Technology Translation: Gliding Robotic Fish for Long-duration Sensing in Aquatic Environments (NSF/IIP)

  12. Development of a Cost-Effective Multi-modal Underwater Robot for Fisheries Research & Environmental Monitoring (United States Geological Survey / Great Lakes Fishery Commission)

  13. Bio-inspired Flow Sensing and Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (ONR/UMD)

  14. AquaSWARM: Small Wireless Autonomous Robots for Monitoring of Aquatic Environments (NSF-IIS)

  15. Evolution Park: An Evolutionary Robotics Habitat (NSF-CNS)

  16. Exploiting Mobility-assisted Collaboration for Adaptive Aquatic Sensor Networks (NSF-ECCS)

  17. ORCHID: Harnessing Digital Evolution to Design High-Assurance Adaptive Systems (NSF-CCF)

  18. Evolving Robotic Fish toward Autonomous Schools (NSF BEACON STC)

  19. RAPID: Monitoring of Gulf Oil Spill with Gliding Robotic Fish (NSF-ECCS)

  20. RET Site on Bio-Inspired Technology and Systems (BITS) (NSF-EEC)

  21. Electroactive Polymers as Artificial Muscles and Sensors: A Systems Perspective (NSF-ECCS; MSU; CRDF)

  22. Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Smart Material-Actuated System with Application to Nanopositioning (NSF-CMMI)

  23. Highly Maneuverable Robotic Fish based on Biological Principles and Biomimetic Materials (ONR)

  24. Testbed for Evolving Adaptive and Cooperative Behavior Among Autonomous Systems (NSF-CNS)

  25. Multivariable Control of Superconducting Particle Accelerator Cavities (NSCL)