Motion Control

Human Activity Forecasting

Human Robot Collaboration

Robot Programming by Demonstration

Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

AI Reasoning for Robotics

Learning and Classification

Applications

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Personal Agents

Robots in the Home

Transportation

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Ralph Hollis

Professor Emeritus, RI

Office: EDSH 112

Research Interests

Human Activity Forecasting

Haptics

Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

Wheeled Robots

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Inertial Sensors, GPS, and Odometry

Aaron M. Johnson

Courtesy Faculty, MechE

Office: WEH 1309

Research Interests

Robotics in Hazardous Application

Search and Rescue Robotics

Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics

Roboethics

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Applications

Field Robotics

Space Exploration

Surveillance & Security

Urban Search and Rescue

Alonzo Kelly

Professor, RI

Office: NSH 3209

Research Interests

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Visual Servoing and Visual Tracking

Robots for Education

Human Robot Collaboration

Applications

Field Robotics

Changliu Liu

Assistant Professor

Office: NSH 4525

Research Interests

Safety for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination

Manufacturing Robotics

AI Reasoning for Multi-Robot Systems

Industrial Robotics

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Applications

Human Robot Collaborative Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Smart Cities

Transportation

Zachary Manchester

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: 1723 Murray Ave

Research Interests

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Applications

Field Robotics

Space Exploration

Transportation

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Cameron Riviere

Research Professor, RI

Office: NSH 3107

Research Interests

Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery

Rehabilitation and Health Care Robotics

Visual Servoing and Visual Tracking

Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination

Applications

Medical Robotics

Robotic Surgery

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Soft Robotics

Jeff Schneider

Research Professor

Office: NSH 3117

Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning

Deep Learning

Learning and Classification

Multi-Robot Planning & Coordination

Applications

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Transportation

Guanya Shi

Assistant Professor, RI

Research Interests

Control Theory

Deep Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Applications

Field Robotics

Aerial Robotics

Transportation

Self-Driving Cars & Vehicles

Urban Air Mobility

Off-Road& All-Terrain Mobility Systems

Zeynep Temel

Assistant Professor, RI

Office: NSH 4527

Research Interests

Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics

Micro/Nanorobots

Robots with Flexible Elements

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery

Kinematics

Sensing and Estimation

Soft Robotics

Robots for Education

Contact Modeling and Manipulation

Robotics for Scientific Discovery

Applications

Medical Robotics

Robotic Surgery

Computer-Aided Fabrication

Community, Education and Entertainment

Modular Manufacturing

Field Robotics

Agriculture

Inspection and Remediation

Urban Search and Rescue

Manufacturing

Rehabilitation Robotics

Matthew J. Travers

Senior Systems Scientist, RI

Office: NSH 3207

Research Interests

Biologically Inspired and Evolutionary Robotics

Search and Rescue Robotics

Force Control

Micro/Nanorobots

Kinematically Redundant Manipulators

Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming

Robots with Flexible Elements

Kinematics

Human Robot Collaboration

AI Reasoning for Robotics

Robotics for Scientific Discovery

Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

Robotics in Construction

Robotics in Hazardous Application

Underwater Robotics

Domestic Robotics

Perceptual Robotics

Motion for Manipulation Tasks

Behavior-based Systems

Cooperative Manipulators

Robot Learning for Manipulation

Parallel Mechanism and Robots

Legged Robots

Model Identification

Soft Robotics

Wheeled Robots

Active Perception

AI Reasoning for Articulated Systems

Geometric Algorithms

Reinforcement Learning

Force and Tactile Sensors

Multisensor Data Fusion

Sensing and Estimation

Full Stack Autonomy

Applications

Agriculture

Soft Robotics

Robotic Surgery

Medical Robotics

Manufacturing

Field Robotics

Infrastructure

Personal and Assistive Robotics

Urban Search and Rescue

David Wettergreen

Research Professor / Director of the PhD Program, RI

Office: NSH 2115

Research Interests

Robotics for Scientific Discovery

Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

Underwater Robotics

Learning and Classification

3-D Vision and Recognition

Multisensor Data Fusion

Active Perception

AI Reasoning for Robotics

Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming