UTARI is proud to announce that Dr. Nicholas Gans and his research group have received the Kazuo Tanie Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025) in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The award was presented in recognition of their paper, “Field Testing an Assistive Robot Teleoperation System for People Who Are…

Dr. Xin (Jeffrey) Liu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UTA and a researcher with the Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM) at UTARI, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant as the Principal Investigator for a $600,000 collaborative research project with Purdue University. The project aims to…

UTARI is excited to share that Dr. Nicholas Gans, principal research scientist and head of the Automation and Intelligent Systems Division at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute, will be presenting a groundbreaking research paper at the IEEE RO-MAN 2025 conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands, taking place August 25–29. The IEEE RO-MAN conference is…

Governor Greg Abbott made it official this week at a luncheon in Fort Worth that Fort Worth is now the Aviation and Defense Capital of Texas. The designation, introduced by state Representatives Charlie Geren and John McQueeney and sponsored by Texas Comptroller and former Senator Kelly Hancock, acknowledges Fort Worth’s enduring leadership in aerospace and…

Developed by the researchers at The University of Texas Research Institute, the Adaptive Spine Board is a revolutionary instrument that can be implemented atop a standard stretcher or spine board to reduce pressure injuries caused by long immobilization during emergency rescues. The air-cell technology and sensor-driven pressure modulation used in its construction are significantly better…

Dr. Shiyao Lin has been awarded funding from the Research Enhancement Program administered by UTA’s Office of Vice President for Research and Innovation for his project Novel Damage-Tolerant Composites Enabled by Hybrid Biomimetic Designs and Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing. Read the full article and learn more about the Research Enhancement Program here….

Dr. Veysel Erel and Dr. Muthu Wijesundara have been awarded a new patent for their “Corrugated Diaphragm Actuator.” This invention presents a mechanical actuator that utilizes a corrugated diaphragm as the actuator element. In particular, the actuator consists of one or more corrugated diaphragms positioned on one or more walls of a pressurizable chamber. When…

Researchers at UTARI, in collaboration with faculty and students at the University of Georgia, have developed an advanced model to better understand lay error—the precision with which individuals align sight crosshairs with a target. Funded by the US Army DEVCOM Analysis Center, the study began with creating a photo-realistic tank-gunning simulation in Unreal Engine. Through…

The Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM) at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI) made a strong impact at the 2025 ASME Aerospace Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials (SSDM) conference, with both research contributions and technical leadership. Faculty and student researchers from IPPM delivered five cutting-edge presentations and chaired several key technical…