Projects
![A schematic of a burning building with firefighters, firetrucks, and uncrewed aerial vehicles on the scene. Arrows link between them, each within concentric circles, to signify a radio-frequency network.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-06/RF%20sensing%20firefighter%20schematic.jpg?itok=oV3yZBe_)
Radio-Based Navigation for Environments Without GPS
With the goal of enabling navigation in environments where GPS is unavailable or unreliable, researchers are developing algorithms to fuse information across a network of small, low-power radio-frequency devices.
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![A person swimming underwater maps a sunken vessel.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-04/UMR_06_yt.jpg?itok=fQVL7svW)
Undersea Vision-Based Navigation and Pose Determination for Human-Robot Teaming
Undersea vision-based navigation and pose determination will enable divers and robots to collaboratively solve complex tasks in an inherently unstructured environment.
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![An screengrab from the video showing about a dozen robots in a large room (representing humans at a party)](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-01/PACT%20testing.png?itok=NAezdJZO)
Private Automated Contact Tracing
An automated, Bluetooth-based system helps perform contact tracing in a private, anonymous way, offering a method to reduce disease spread during a pandemic.
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![a researcher looks through a small window on a large metal multichambered molecular beam epitaxy tool.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-12/522734-001D.jpg?h=41f55a5b&itok=PRwftYs3)
Materials by Design
A new approach to materials discovery aims to expedite the process of deploying new materials for specific mission needs.
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![The GBSAA system displace shows a terrain map with navigational aid overlaid.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-10/GBSAA.png?itok=PNkVVxj6)
Ground-Based Sense-And-Avoid System
A radar and guidance system enables uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) to avoid collisions with other aircraft, allowing the Department of Defense to operate UAS in the National Airspace System.
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![a screenshot of a user interface shows a world map with radar-like depictions of rain bands, colored blue, green, and yellow.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-10/GWSR.png?h=40ac80e7&itok=Z9X8TtBo)
Global Synthetic Weather Radar
By compiling lightning data, satellite imagery, and numerical weather models, the GSWR provides radar-like analyses and forecasts over regions not observed by actual weather radars.
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![Multiple images of drawn faces in different colors connected by white lines.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-09/AnyPlay.png?itok=SzHY6wM2)
Mission-Ready Reinforcement Learning
We are using reinforcement learning to train artificial intelligence to team with humans.
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![This image shows Mexico Beach, FL, after it sustained damage from Hurricane Michael in 2018. It was taken through NOAA’s Emergency Remote Sensing program. Satellites could provide similar information after more incidents. (Image courtesy of NOAA.)](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-09/DisasterSat%20image.jpg?itok=-mCu8dPb)
![A researcher tests a prototype ankle exoskeleton adapted with machine learning capabilities to adaptively and intelligently provide assistance.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-08/Exoskeleton_CAREN.jpg?itok=lCsQqpFY)
Human-Exoskeleton Fluency
Researchers at the STRIVE Center are developing a fluid, intuitive exoskeleton system to improve the technology’s use in operational environments.
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![A participant walks on the treadmill in a virtual hospital hallway while the platform applies a rotation perturbation.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-08/treadmill.png?itok=kZt6RtSq)
Assessment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Researchers at the STRIVE Center are improving methods for identifying the mechanisms underlying balance impairments in patients with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
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