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![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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![A web application of CAP images, hosted on ArcGIS, is annotated using LADI v2. Circle sizes and colors represent likelihood of damage and damage type, adjustable filters are in the middle, and the right shows a preview of a selected point.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2024-07/LADI%20image.png?h=8a55bbdf&itok=1j0XJdD_)
Multi-label Dataset and Classifiers for Low-Altitude Disaster Imagery
This software program helps disaster responders extract actionable information from post-disaster aerial images.
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![A diver and autonomous underwater vehicle swim underwater to identify an object (mine).](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-10/Underwater_PB%26amp%3BJ.jpg?itok=KVLrdClY)
Underwater PB&J: Combining Diver and Robot Strengths for Optimized Mid-Mission Teaming
New navigation and vehicle autonomy algorithms consider which tasks humans and autonomous systems respectively do best, with the goal of improving search path planning and object classification in underwater environments.
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![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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![PPE on blue cloth](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-08/iStock-1216294136%20%282%29.jpg?itok=KQBvWJKY)
National Demand PPE Study Web Application
The application helps users to plan pandemic response by estimating state and regional personal protective equipment (PPE) demand.
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![A schematic showing radar sensing as one application that can benefit from robust, trustworthy, and safe artificial intelligence in resource-constrained applications.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-07/digital-web-02.jpg?h=671b71e5&itok=kpO5AFKO)
Machine Learning in Resource-Constrained Environments
Robust, trustworthy, and safe machine learning algorithms that operate in resource-constrained environments will improve missile defense and other target recognition and mission planning systems.
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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 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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