Research

Summary: Three decades of engineering research & development in robotics, automation, and applications of computational and artificial intelligence to autonomous sensor-based control systems. Experienced as senior control and navigation researcher and software/systems engineer on major robotics projects for national security programs and space/planetary missions. Team leadership, supervision, and independent research experience on robot prototype design, fabrication, programming, integration, experimentation and field/laboratory verification & validation projects.

Expertise

  • robotics and intelligent systems

  • mobile robot navigation

  • fuzzy logic control

  • evolutionary computation

  • behavior-based control

  • adaptive/learning systems

  • field robotics

  • robotics for space & planetary missions

Research Interests

  • robotic systems engineering

  • autonomous control

  • cooperative robotics

  • soft computing applications

  • haptics and teleoperation

  • brain-machine interface systems

  • performance measurement

  • unsolved challenges in space robotics

  • modular open systems architecture

  • model-based systems engineering

Highlights

Intelligent Co-Robots Demo at 2015 DRC Technology Expo