Dr. Md Jahidul Islam Leads Project to Improve Underwater Robot Localization and Navigation

September 13, 2023

A project led by Dr. Md Jahidul Islam titled “Underwater Robot Navigation and Localization During Recovery by Optical Homing and Penning” received $600K in funding by the NSF Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) program. Along with collaborators Dr. Sanjeev Koppal (ECE) and Dr. Jane Shin (MAE), this project will solve the foundational problem of underwater […]

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Dr. Matthew Hale Receives ONR Funding for Reactive Swarm Control Research

July 26, 2021

Dr. Matthew Hale, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida, recently received funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for his project “Reactive Swarm Control for Dynamic Environments.” Swarm robotics is an approach to the coordination of multiple autonomous robots as a system which consists of […]

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