Welcome to the Sevil Research Group

Welcome to the Sevil Research Group in Department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at University of West Florida.  Our aim is to study research areas that have theoretical and practical aspects, to examine real world implementations in different domains using techniques that offer solutions to a wide spectrum, and we try to advance the current state-of-the-art in robotics and intelligent systems in general. Our current and past research topics include:

• Autonomous Navigation, Path Planning for Mobile Robots

• Data-driven Detection & Estimation

• Computer Vision for Mobile Robots

• Bio-inspired and Evolutionary Computational Methods

• Distributed Behavior Models for Multi-Agent Teams

Please check our research page for further details.

News & Highlights

• Dr. Sevil shared insights in IEEE Spectrum article on jailbreak actions in LLM-driven robots: [Link]

• Our research group in collaboration with Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) received $478,000 DURIP grant from Office of Naval Research (ONR). [Link] [Link] [Link]

• UWF Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Faculty Spotlight for Mentoring Award Dr. Sevil received: [Link] [Link] [Link]

• Dr. Sevil is selected as a recipient of the 2024 Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from the Office of the Provost, and a recipient the 2024 Office of Undergraduate Research Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award at University of West Florida.

• Enterprise Project team that Dr. Sevil has been advising received the Silver Award at the National Robotics Challenge (https://www.thenrc.org/) in the Sumo Robot Category in Marion, Ohio. [Link] [Link]

• One of our members, Bhavyansh Mishra, received the UWF Outstanding Research Assistant Award.

• The UWF Robotics Club that Dr. Sevil has been advising received the Innovation Award in 2024 UWF Student Involvement Awards.

• Our research group in collaboration with Catalano Aerospace received $110,000 grant from US Air Force SBIR/STTR. [Link]

• Sevil Research Group members successfully participated in the GUS challenge. [Link]

• Our research group in collaboration with New Mexico State University (NMSU) received $728,000 grant from US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [Link] [Link]

• One of our projects is highlighted during UWF President Saunders' 2023 State of the University Address. [Link]

• Our Intelligent Systems and Robotics Lab, and members of Sevil Research Group are highlighted in Fall 2023 Issue of UWF Connection Magazine. [Link] 

• Our Intelligent Systems and Robotics Lab, and 3 members of Sevil Research Group are highlighted during 2023 New Student Convocation. [Link] 

• One of our members, Amanda Serger, received the "Student Research Video Competition Award" in Engineering category at 2023 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) for her video for poster presentation on our work titled "Assistive Robotic Platform Design for Non-Urgent Household Tasks".

• Our ditributed behavior research funded by AFWERX is featured in Florida Trend Magazine. [Link]

Open positions

There are PhD and MS student positions available. Please contact Dr. Sevil for further information.