Category: Robotics

Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s RoboPI Laboratory are developing intelligent marine robots to explore the ocean, monitor ecosystems and help protect critical underwater infrastructure.

Ivan Ruchkin, PhD, and José Príncipe, PhD, are collaborating on an NSF-funded project aiming to create an end-to-end methodology to model, analyze, quantify, detect, and adapt to changes in the visual environment of an autonomous cyber-physical system.

The RoboPI group at the University of Florida’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, led by Md Jahidul Islam, PhD, recently joined forces with the Ocean Rescue Alliance International (ORAI) and the International SeaKeepers Society to advance marine robotics for ecosystem monitoring. The collaboration focused on testing fully autonomous survey and mapping technologies designed to better understand the growth and health of remote marine habitats.

Ivan Ruchkin, Ph.D., is not satisfied with how state-of-the-art cyber-physical systems deal with anomalies. A project recently funded by the National Science Foundation aims to fill in the gaps in current methodologies.

Dr. Jie Fu (PI) has been awarded $1.3 million in funding from the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory for “Strategic Planning in Hierarchical Games: Achieving Rapid Dominance in the Uncertain World of Conflict (Shadow).” Distinguished Professor Warren Dixon, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida, serves as co-PI on the project.

Silvia Ferrari is the John Brancaccio Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University and associate dean for cross-campus engineering research at Cornell Tech. She’ll present “Information-driven Robot Planning and Control” Thursday, Nov. 21 at 2:00pm in the NVIDIA Auditorium in Malachowsky Hall.

ECE Assistant Professor Ivan Ruchkin has been awarded $250k in funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in support of his project “Provable Resilience for Visual Terminal AI Guidance.”

ECE Assistant Professor Jie Fu is part of a research project sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory under Cooperative Agreement W911NF-22-2-0233 between Raytheon BBN and ARL with support from the University of Florida. The broader project will develop novel research results focusing on robots’ formation tracking and waypoint design at both individual and team levels.