The ARCS Lab addresses foundational robotics research problems underlying applications in emergency response, environmental sensing, precision agriculture, and pediatric rehabilitation. Our research seeks to enable existing and new robot embodiments (and teams thereof) to operate in efficient and resilient manners autonomously and/or in cooperation with humans despite the presence of uncertainty associated with action, perception, and the operating environment. For this purpose, our research approach uniquely combines principles from mechanism design, dynamical systems, control, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, and spans a large part of the contemporary robotics research spectrum: from the design and fabrication of robots with novel actuation capabilities to synthesis of reactive task allocation, motion planning and cooperative control strategies.
Information on current and selected past research projects listed in the subpages aims to offer a high-level illustration of our research agenda and does not intend to capture everything our lab is working on. For more detailed information on the publicized outcomes of our research, please check our technical publications.