Robotics and Controls is a strong research group. State-of-the-art laboratories support funded work which includes a number of aerospace related projects.
| CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title of Grant | Funding Agency | Investigator(s) |
| Feasibility Study of Using Passive Mechanisms to Simulate Reduced Gravity for Training Astronauts | NASA-EPSCoR | Ou Ma, R. Paz |
| Cable-Robotic Based EVA Training | NASA Graduate Student Research Program | Ou Ma, Jesse McAvoy |
| Development of MAV Test and Evaluation Technology | Physical Science Laboratory (PSL) | Ou Ma, Thomas Burton |
| Analytical and Exploratory Approaches to Communicate Mathematics to Visually Impaired Students | NSF | E. Pontelli, Ou Ma, D. Simon, S. Tran |
| Human-Robot Interfacing for Threat Reduction | S. Helmreich, Ou Ma | S. Helmreich, Ou Ma |
| An Active Body Weight Support (BWS) System for Neural Rehabilitation | n/a | Ou Ma |
| An Integrated Framework for Order Reduction, Robust Control, and Real-Time Dynamic Substructuring of Nonlinear Multi-Scale Hybrid Aerospace Systems | AFOSR | Eric Butcher |
| Development of an Adaptive Reduced-Gravity Simulator for Aerospace and Biomechanics Research | NSF | O. Ma, R. Paz, S. Tran, E. Pines |