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Do Physical Connections Improve the Control and Performance of Robot Swarms?
Prof. David Saldaña recently received a three-year, $755,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to design aerial swarms and develop control methods that rely on physical inter-robot interaction. Read More...
Defend The Republic Drone Competition at Lehigh University
The Defend The Republic Drone Competition will be hosted at Lehigh University from Nov. 13 – 17, 2023. For more information, please visit Defend the Repbulic....
Solving ambiguity in robot perception
Professor Nader Motee recently received a nearly $680,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop a novel, multi-stage, perception-based control paradigm that will essentially help robots assess risk, and ultimately make autonomous...
A simpler path to supercharge robotic systems
Professor Subhrajit Bhattacharya has earned a prestigious NSF CAREER award for project using the mathematical field of topology, which could help streamline complex robotic systems used in healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing. The...
Chuah named an associate director of I-DISC
Computer science and engineering professor Mooi Choo Chuah has been appointed as an associate director of Lehigh’s Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC), effective January 1, 2023. She succeeds professor Brian...
AIRLab papers accepted at ICRA & ACC ’23!
Congratulations to the following lab members for their successful submissions to ICRA and ACC 2023! Diego S. D’Antonio, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, and David Saldaña. Forming and Controlling Hitches in Midair Using Aerial Robots, ICRA 2023. Disha...
Video: Building excitement for robotics in first-year students
Professor Rosa Zheng teaches a five-week introduction to robotics class for Lehigh first-year engineering students as part of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department lab course. The students learn to build, simulate and race a one-tenth...
2022 Summer CHOICES program
Lehigh AIR Lab organized the robotics activity for the 2022 CHOICES program on June 22 & 29. Graduate students* Alp Sahin, Disha Kamale and Guangyi Liu, along with faculty members Subhrajit Bhattacharya and Corey Montella, organized a robot...
First workshop on robot versatility 2022
During the event, we had five presentations from top researchers in robotics, presenting their perspectives and ideas in this area. The agenda can be found here. Dr. Dylan Shell, TAMU Dr. Alyssa Pierson, BU Dr. Fumin Zhang, GIT Dr....
Video: Using robots to help people
Research by computer science and Engineering PhD students Jiawei Xu and Diego Salazar D’Antonio involves using robots to manipulate objects without human intervention, with the ultimate goal of helping humanity perform a range of tasks. View...