Information-driven Autonomous Exploration in Uncertain Underwater Environments (NSF/IIS)
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A Framework for Human-Team-Supervised Autonomy with Application to Underwater Search and Rescue (NSF/IIS)
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Soft Robotic Systems for Safe and Accurate Medical Diagnosis and Intervention (MSU Foundation)
Sponsor: MSU Foundation (Strategic Partnership Grant) PI: Prof. Xiaobo Tan, Co-PIs: Prof. Tong Gao (Mechanical Engineering and Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering), John Kruger (Small Animal Clinical Sciences), Chunqi Qian (Radiology), Chuan Wang (Electrical & Computer Engineering). This internal grant aims to build an interdisciplinary team at MSU that advances soft robotic systems for various applications, including addressing …
Goal-driven Marine Autonomy with Application to Fisheries Science and Management (NSF/IIS)
Goal-driven Marine Autonomy with Application to Fisheries Science and Management (NSF/IIS)
A Smart Panel System for In-situ Detection of Adult Sea Lamprey (Great Lakes Fishery Commission)
Exploiting the Unexploited: A Smart Panel System for In-situ Detection of Adult Sea Lamprey Sponsor: Great Lakes Fishery Commission (Sea Lamprey Research Program) PI: Prof. Xiaobo Tan, Co-PIs: Christopher Holbrook (Hammond Bay Biological Station, U.S. Geological Survey), and Chuan Wang (Electrical & Computer Engineering). Invasive species control and assessment strategies often seek to exploit species-specific behaviors or traits. …
Circuit Dynamics of Sensorimotor Integration and Decision Making in Octopus (NIH)
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/no-bones-about-it-octopus-may-be-the-key-to-smart-prosthetics/
Reshaping Motor Learning in High-Dimensional Tasks via Soft Robotic Physical Interactions (NSF/CMMI)
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