Projects
![Three project team members test the robot's flexibility in an indoor laboratory setting.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-08/530726-013.jpg?itok=NseXgi-5)
Vine Robots for Collapsed Structure Mapping
These robots can navigate difficult urban disaster terrain to help responders locate and access victims for rescue.
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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 graph with the words HAPI Human AI-performance against a blue background. Surrounding the words are images of technologies, including a wristband, a laptop, a sensored helmet, VR glasses, and gloves.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2021-11/HAPI%20image%20-%201600x900%20px-01.png?itok=Fp6uvXQq)
Human-AI Performance Incubator
A new collaboration space is empowering researchers to drive innovations in human-AI teaming.
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![A group of five researchers pose in a field with two UAVs.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2021-11/CHASER-1.png?itok=3bUBRPSb)
Collaborative-UAS for Hostile Attribution, Surveillance, Emplacement, and Reconnaissance
We are building a toolbox of autonomous functions for unmanned aerial systems to improve UAS missions and alleviate burden on human operators in the field.
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![three people stand on a big dirt pile, outside, with blue sky in the background. One researcher is holding a laptop, which another looks at. The third person is holding a remote, controlling a robotic vehicle also on the dirt pile.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2021-08/521383-009D.jpg?h=41f55a5b&itok=c7t6A2g-)
Motion Under Rubble Measured Using Radar
Our see-through-wall sensor is a lightweight, portable technology that peers through rubble and debris of a disaster site to detect survivors.
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![A large KC-135R tanker aircraft refuels an F-15 Eagle aircraft while they in mid air.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2021-07/Refueling.jpg?itok=vmCWx1Yv)
Aerial Refueling Optimization Engine
Our model optimizes the scheduling of aerial refueling missions, saving fuel and costs for the Department of Defense.
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![a photo of boston harbor with several boats on the water; each boat has an orange box drawn around it as a 'detection'](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2020-07/Boston_2015-07-09_PM_Panorama_0.jpg?h=3c784fb1&itok=wNNBATpS)
Waterways Automated Vessel Information
Our video analytics are helping to improve waterway security.
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![This image illustrates a retweet network for the #MacronLeaks narrative during the 2017 French presidential election. Each circle represents a Twitter account, and arrows represent “retweets.”](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2020-07/retweetnetwork_0.png?h=0e9d9503&itok=ai6YwOHX)
Reconnaissance of Influence Operations
New software takes advantage of artificial intelligence techniques to automate the detection and assessment of aggressive influence operations.
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![Graphic of TbD-net subtasks](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-11/tbDnet.jpg?h=31ab21cc&itok=ZlCrwSMM)
Transparency by Design Network
A new neural network model reveals some of the mystery behind the decision-making capability of artificial intelligence systems.
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![A goal of the program is to develop a system that can identify spatial relationships between objects in a scene, such as counting how many planes are parked at the terminal on the left.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-06/computer-on-watch-image-v3.png?h=ac94feee&itok=cHrN-fSU)
Computer on Watch
An artificial intelligence application that automatically identifies objects in aerial imagery could reduce the time analysts spend in manually combing through images.
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