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| Overview |
Research activities range from fundamental issues in systems and control to the practical art of designing and deploying advanced autonomous robots for maritime applications. Specific research activities include
Fundamental research
- Coordinated control of multiple vehicles over extremely low bandwith communication networks.
- Simultaneous distributed data fusion and decentralized control for mobile sensor networks
- Information-theoretic exploration and mapping
- Synchronization and consensus over stochastic networks
Applied Research
- Adaptive environmental sampling using autonomous vehicles
- Advanced control system design
- Disributed navigation
- Design and deployment of advanced maritime robots
- Machine vision for maritime applications
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| Selected On-going Projects |
- CAREER: Cooperating Underwater Robots: Theory and Practice, National Science Foundation, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program.
- Fast Coordination for Adaptive Group Behaviors and Distributed Signal Processing, Office of Naval Research.
- Coordinated Sensing and Control for Surveillance and Tracking by Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicle Teams, Office of Naval Research, with the Naval Postgraduate School.
- Adaptive Sampling In Dynamic Environments Using AUVs, Office of Naval Research, with Dr. Craig Woolsey (VT-AOE) and the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities
- Low-Cost Biodegradable Massive Sensor Networks For Submarine Detection, DARPA, (SBIR Phase I & II subcontract from Nanosonic, Inc.)
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| Selected Past Project |
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| Downloads: Adaptive Sampling Simulator |
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