Research
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 design and fabrication of robots with novel actuation capabilities to synthesis of reactive task allocation, motion planning and cooperative control strategies.
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 design and fabrication of robots with novel actuation capabilities to synthesis of reactive task allocation, motion planning and cooperative control strategies.
The lab currently has 8 active extramural research awards from NSF, ONR, USDA and UC Office of the President (from the MRPI program). These awards currently support the research of 6 Ph.D. students (3 new scheduled to begin in Fall 2021), 2 M.S. students and 1 postdoctoral researcher in the group, as well as the procurement of all necessary equipment and supplies to conduct our research.
The lab currently has 8 active extramural research awards from NSF, ONR, USDA and UC Office of the President (from the MRPI program). These awards currently support the research of 6 Ph.D. students (3 new scheduled to begin in Fall 2021), 2 M.S. students and 1 postdoctoral researcher in the group, as well as the procurement of all necessary equipment and supplies to conduct our research.
Information on research projects and research highlights listed in the subpages aims to offer a high-level illustration of our research agenda. For more detailed information please check our technical publications and/or contact us!
Information on research projects and research highlights listed in the subpages aims to offer a high-level illustration of our research agenda. For more detailed information please check our technical publications and/or contact us!