Finished Projects

AquaSWARM: Small Wireless Autonomous Robots for Monitoring of Aquatic Environments (NSF-IIS)

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Sponsor: National Science Foundation (CISE/IIS Division) Collaborator: Prof. Elena Litchman (Co-PI, Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Zoology) Project Abstract at NSF Site The goal of the AquaSWARM project is to design and develop small, energy-efficient, autonomous underwater robots as sensor-rich platforms for dynamic, long-duration monitoring of aquatic environments. A novel concept of gliding robotic fish …

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Bio-inspired Flow Sensing and Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (ONR/UMD)

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Sponsor: Office of Naval Research (through University of Maryland) In collaboration with Profs. Derek Paley, Sean Humbert from Univ. of Maryland and Sheryl Coombs from Bowling Green State University, this project is centered around advancing the understanding of the lateral line sensory mechanism of fish and exploiting the insight to engineer artificial lateral lines for the …

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