UTARI’s Biomedical Technologies Division, led by Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, had two abstracts accepted for 2023. They are related to the smart seat cushion technology for individuals with spinal cord injury. International Seating Symposium (ISS – The 38th International Seating Symposium. April 13-15, 2023. Pittsburgh, PA) American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA…
Dr. Frank Lewis, a Professor in the UTA Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair and Head of the Advanced Controls & Sensors Group at UTA Research Institute, has received two distinguished honors. Dr. Lewis has been named a Clarivate Highly City Researcher of 2022. He has received…
Dr. Nick Gans, Principal Research Scientist and head of UTARI’s Automation and Intelligent Systems Division, was accepted in early access by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The paper “Rule-Based Safe Probabilistic Movement Primitive Control via Control Barrier Functions,” has been finalized and posted in “Early Access.” In…
Dr. Haleh Aghajani’s, along with colleagues, paper was accepted at the 44th Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Conference. H. A. Affleck, G. E. Brannon, H. Aghajani, V.P. Nguyen, K. Brown, Y. Liao, “Social Media ads as a method of research recruitment: A comparison of minority women who enrolled vs. who…
Dr. Yan Wan, Professor, Electrical Engineering, has been elected to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate (AIAA) Fellow Class of 2023. AIAA Associate Fellows are “individuals of distinction who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.” Per AIAA, Dr. Wan…
Dr. Xin Liu, Assistant Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering, has been awarded a Phase 2 STTR subcontract by AnalySwift for a NASA project. Affordable space exploration beyond the lower Earth orbit will require innovative lightweight structural concepts. Tailorable composites are an innovative lightweight material that have the potential…
Dr. Nick Gans, Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Automation and Intelligent Systems Division was issued a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for printing on curved surfaces (Patent #11400317). “Line width control and trajectory planning for robot guided inkjet deposition” was in collaboration with Dr.…
Dr. Haleh Aghajani, Research Scientist at Sensor Systems Division, through the collaboration with Dr. Yue Liao (UTA Kinesiology) and other internal and external interdisciplinary collaborators, co-authored four conference papers in 2022. In these projects, she has been leading the algorithm development and signal processing of the data from wearable sensors.…
Yi Hong, Venu Varanasi, and UTARI’s Muthu Wijesundara, UTA patent recipients, contributed to the University of Texas System’s overall ranking of No. 3 in the list of Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2021. Inventors from The University of Texas at Arlington received 17 patents in 2021,…
UTARI’s Automation and Intelligent Systems Division, led by Dr. Nick Gans, has been awarded the subcontract for an Army Phase 2 STTR grant by Novateur Research Solutions. The project is to develop a real-time pavement imaging system that measures deflection depth, trailing and leading, due to a moving wheel load…
