The ARCS Lab addresses foundational robotics research problems underlying applications in precision agriculture and environmental monitoring, emergency response, and human-robot collaboration. Our research seeks to enable existing and new robot embodiments designed in the lab (as well as 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 the synthesis of reactive task allocation, motion planning, and cooperative control strategies.
The information on current and selected past research projects listed on the subpages aims to provide a high-level overview of our research agenda. It 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.