Active Projects

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