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. Bashir Jafari of the University…

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. • Liao, Y., Cho, P.,…

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, contributing to the University of…

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 on pavement surfaces. It will…

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 Directed Medical Research Programs. You…

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 advanced highly tailorable designs with…

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 Lay Error in Targeting.” For…

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 institutions throughout the country, the…

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 in Robotics and AI: Publication…

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 of advanced composite materials. Dr….