Robotics, Automation, and Manufacturing

Collaborative Manipulation

• Human-robot manipulation
• Multi-mobile-robot manipulation

Non-rigid Material Handling

• Composites manufacturing
• Garment/tent manufacturing

Motion and Task Planning

• Optimal motion planning, task scheduling
• Additive manufacturing
• Iterative and reinforcement learning

Sensor-guided Robotics

• Visual serving
• Compliance motion & force control
• Sensor guided assembly

Interoperable Middleware

• Interoperability and plug-n-play
• Low-barrier robot programming

Recent Projects

• ARM Convergent Manufacturing
• DARPA SENSE: Big area additive manufacturing of self-sensing, self-diagnostic metal structures
• ARL: Ceramic-metal matrix composites thermal barrier

Demonstration Facility