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