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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dr. Endel Iarve, Director, Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, hosted a three-day workshop for government, academia, and industry supporting aerospace defense projects. The annual workshop is between Australia, Japan, and US DoD. It is devoted to recent advances in the modeling and testing…
The Texas Legislative Budget Board (LBB) visited UTARI as part of a tour of UTA and UTD. UTARI’s focus was on automation and unmanned systems. The Automation and Intelligent Systems Division gave demonstrations of unmanned aerial systems, unmanned ground vehicles, as well as AR/VR. UTARI’s research in these areas serves…
Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Biomedical Technologies Division was inducted into the NAI as a senior member on June 14, 2022, at the Academy’s annual meeting in Phoenix. Welcome remarks were delivered by UTA’s new President, Dr. Jennifer Cowley, and the awards presentation was delivered…
UTRAI is pleased to announce Dr. Muthu Ram Prabhu Elenchezhian (an alumnus of MAE and IPPM-UTARI) as a finalist award winner in the SAMPE 2022 Young Professionals Emerging Leadership Award. The award recognizes the achievements of young professionals (who have graduated from university and are also under the age of…
