This page lists all ongoing and past projects funded by Autonomous System IRT seed grants.
Ongoing Projects
2018 Phase I Projects
Autonomous Distributed Computation in Honeybee Swarms
PI: Orit Peleg
Autonomous Virtual Assistant for Crewed Space Missions
PIs: Torin Clark, Nisar Ahmed, Dan Szafir
Collaboration Initiation: Formation Control in Chaotic Systems
PIs: Natasha Bosanac, Xudong Chen
Collaboration Initiation: Secure Ensemble Control
PIs: Xudong Chen, Eric Wustrow, Fabio Somenzi
Detection and Localization of Methane Sources Using Teams of Autonomous UAS
PIs: Sean Humbert, John Crimaldi, Michael Hannigan, Chris Heckman, Brian Argrow
In Vivo Robot Localization
PIs: Mark Rentschler, Chris Heckman
Natural Language Constraint-Based Learning from Demonstration
PI: Brad Hayes
Systematic and Integrated High-Assurance Autonomous Systems
PIs: Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Chris Heckman, Nisar Ahmed, John Hauser, Ashutosh Trivedi
Temporal-Logic Based Reinforcement Learning
PIs: Ashutosh Trivedi, Pavol Cerny, Fabio Somenzi
2018 Phase II Projects
Robotic Chemists: Automating the Synthesis of Multifunctional Materials
PIs: Daniel Szafir, Carson Bruns
Automated Fabrication Tools for Robots and Electromechanical Systems
PIs: Robert MacCurdy, Chris Keplinger, Greg Whiting
Mobile Sensing Using UAVs to Enable Accurate Wind Field Estimation Across Wind Farms: Feasibility Study
PIs: Lucy Pao, Chris Bay, Cory Dixon, Ute Herzfeld
Super-Resolution Applied to Detection and Identification of Autonomous System
PIs: Lijun Chen, Eugene Liu
Algorithmic Challenges in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Systems
PIs: Ligun Chen, Chris Heckman
Simultaneous Learning of Objects and Grasp Models for Shared Autonomy Through Novel Tactile Sensing Technology
PIs: Brad Hayes, Chris Heckman
Guiding Autonomous Systems by Real-Time Characterization of Spatial Field Structures
PIs: Ute Herzfeld, Brian Argrow, Cory Dixon, Lucy Pao