2021 was a strong year for UTARI innovation with four new patents issued within the year. The Biomedical Technologies Division, led by Principal Research Scientist, Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, received two patents for their rehabilitation and preventative care devices: one relating to fluid-driven actuators , and the other relating to apparatuses for diabetic foot lesion prevention….

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has elected two engineers from The University of Texas at Arlington as senior members of the organization. NAI senior members are active faculty, scientists and administrators who have demonstrated remarkable innovation by producing technologies that have the potential to significantly impact the welfare of society. The new members are…

Serious hand and finger injuries provided the impetus for three individual innovators to connect, collaborate, and investigate over the past 10 years. The result is a promising prototype device called the ReHeal Glove, which will be pilot tested with patients in the next few months using a combination of funding and support from WE-REACH (the…

The University of Central Florida (UCF) was awarded a National Science Foundation CCRI for “Planning: InfraStructure for Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis (I-SPIES).” UCF selected UTARI and UTD as its collaborators. Dr. Nick Gans, UTARI Principal Research Scientist and Division Head, Automation & Intelligent Systems, will lead the Research Institute on the project. From the…

Dr. Frank Lewis, Professor, Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair, was awarded the elite Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher recognition. Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2021, fewer than 6,700, or about 0.1%, of the world’s researchers, in…

The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent for Dr. Muthu Wijesundara, Principal Research Scientist and Division Head, Biomedical Technologies, for “Dual-Labor Insole Apparatuses for Diabetic Foot Lesion Prevention and Realted Methods.” Applicants included the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and the University of North Texas Health Science at…

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers hosted their International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) Conference Nov. 1-5, 2021. IMECE is ASME’s largest research and development conference focused primarily on mechanical engineering but encompasses perspectives from many engineering disciplines. Dr. Xin Liu, Assistant Professor at the Industrial, Manufacturing, & Systems Engineering (IMSE) Department at UTA…

Affordable space exploration beyond the lower Earth orbit will require innovative lightweight structural concepts. Lightweighting potential stemming from the application of composite materials oftentimes fails to fully exploit the potential for reducing mass due to the lack of design tools tailored to yield designs with optimal load paths. Consequently, highly tailorable material systems are commonly…

The paper “Assistive power buffer control via adaptive dynamic programming,” has been selected by the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion editorial board as one of the best papers published in the journal for the period 2019-2020 for the category “Energy Storage.” UTA Research Team included Dr. Frank Lewis, Dr. Ali Davoudi, in partnership with Dr….

Dr. Haleh Aghajani, UTARI Research Scientist, in collaboration with UTA researchers has been awarded the Interdisciplinary Research Program (IRP) Grant. The IRP grant will help fund “From data to personalized preventive medicine: leveraging wearable sensors to promote active living in women of color with obesity” research project. Using combined methodologies of behavioral science, health communication,…