Dr. Xin Liu Awarded STTR Phase II by AnalySwift on NASA Project

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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…

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Dr. Nick Gans Issued Patent

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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.…

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Dr. Haleh Aghajani 2022 Conference Papers

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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.…

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Dr. Muthu Wijesundara’s ReHeal Glove Featured in Army AL&T Magazine

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Army AL&T magazine featured Dr. Wijesundara’s ReHeal Glove, a bioengineered glove designed to promote faster healing in surgically-repaired hands. In partnership with Dr. Chris Allen, M.D. and researcher at the University of Washington, the glove is now being tested by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s (USAMRDC) Congressionally…

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NASA Awards Dr. Xin Liu for Composites and Hybrid Material Systems

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Affordable space exploration beyond the lower Earth orbit will require innovative lightweight structural concepts. Advanced tailorable composites or hybrid material systems can be a means of lightweight exploration vehicles, space habitats, and other space hardware or to enable challenging performance characteristics. However, no commercially available design tools exist to produce…

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UTARI Awarded Subcontract from University of Georgia

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UTARI’s Automation & Intelligent Systems Division was subcontracted by the University of Georgia. Funded by Army DEVCOM Data & Analysis Center (DAC) via Northeastern University and Georgia, the project is for the “Development of Testing & Evaluation for Soldier-Device Teaming Compatibility, Vulnerability, and Durability in Emergent Situations AI Baseline of…

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Upward Bound Tours UTARI

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UTA’s Upward Bound visited UTARI to learn more about the Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies and the Automation and Intelligent Systems Division. Students met with researchers and toured UTARI labs. Upward Bound (UB) is a federally funded program founded in 1965 by the U.S. Department of Education. Located at several…

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UTARI’s Automation & Intelligent Systems Division Published Four Papers

UTARI’s Automation & Intelligent Systems Division Published Four Papers

Dr. Nick Gan’s, Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Automation and Intelligent Systems, team published multiple papers.   Stability of Time-Invariant Extremum Seeking Control for Limit Cycle Minimization – IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control: Publication Safe Robot Trajectory Control Using Probabilistic Movement Primitives and Control Barrier Functions – Frontiers…

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