Lehigh’s Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics (AIR) Lab is a joint research group composed of faculty and students at Lehigh University. Our research covers relevant areas in robotics including robot control, machine learning, manipulation, aerial robotics, autonomous driving and more.
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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...
‘Cutting the cord’ to advance ocean data collection
Lehigh ECE professor and underwater wireless communications expert Yahong Rosa Zheng leads NSF-funded team developing a novel Autonomous Observatory Node prototype that would transmit data from undersea sensors—without the costs and limitations of...
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...