• SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Aging In Place Through Enhanced Mobility and Social Connectedness: An Integrated Robot and Wearable Sensor Approach, Lead PI, sponsored by NSF, 2019-2022.

• Understanding Pedestrian Dynamics for Seamless Human-Robot Interaction, PI, sponsored by NSF, 2018-2021.

• NRI: Collaborative Research: Dynamic Robot Guides for Emergency Evacuations , Lead PI, sponsored by NSF, 2015-2019.

• NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Distributed Robust Spectrum Sensing and Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks , Co-PI, sponsored by NSF, 2013-2016.

• RI: Small: Collaborative Research: Distributed Heterogeneous Ocean Robots for Detecting and Monitoring Oil Plumes , Lead PI, sponsored by NSF, 2012-2015.

• BECS: Collaborative Research: Dynamical Networks and Collective Synchronization of Coupled Lasers , Lead PI, sponsored by NSF, 2010-2012.

• CCLI: Meeting the Educational Challenge in Mico/Nanorobotics for Biomedical Applications, PI, sponsored by NSF, 2009-2011.

• Collaborative Research: Control of Atomic-Scale Friction by Normal Surface Oscillation, Lead PI, sponsored by NSF, 2008-2011.

• A Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Multi-Sensor Platform for Intruder Detection, sponsored by US Army Picatinny Arsenal, 2008-2009.

• Autonomous Deployment of Service Robots in Mobile Sensor Networks, sponsored by US Army Picatinny Arsenal, 2007-2008.

• Situation Awareness and Response using a Cooperative Multi-Robot System, sponsored by US Army Picatinny Arsenal, 2006-2007.

• Jan. 2019: Optimization of Merging Pedestrian Flows by Human-Robot Interaction.

• July 2018: Pedestrian-Robot Interaction Experiments in an Exit Corridor.

• August 10-21, 2015: Unmanned surface vehicles monitoring/tracking ocean pollution plume at Makai Research Pier in Hawaii: Vimeo channel of our experimental videos, and a few field testing photos.

• Sept. 2014: Robot-assisted smartphone localization for human indoor tracking: Robot experiments conducted on campus.

Robotics and Automation Laboratory

Current Students:

• Xinchi Huang
• Sakib Chowdhury
• Yifan Mao

Student Alumni:

• Guang Yang (Robotics Engineer at General Motor, US)
• Zhuo Chen
• Muhammad Fahad (Robotics Engineer at National Oil Well Vargo US)
• Chao Jiang (Associate Professor at University of Wyoming)
• Shuai Li (Professor at University of Oulu, Finland)
• Wenlin Zhang (Western Digital)
• Yao Lu (Google)
• Hua Wang
• Shubo Zhang
• Ruofan Kong (Microsoft)
• Yi Long

Postdoc Alumni:

• Junwei Wang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
• Zheng Wang