Adaptive Robotics & Technology Lab

[Research News | 12/15/22] Our latest work on α-WaLTR (adaptive Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot) has been published in IEEE Transaction on Robotics.

[Research News | 05/24/22] Kangneoung and Dr. Lee attended ICRA 2022. Congratulations to Kangneoung for his first ICRA presentation!

[Research News | 01/05/22] ART Lab has started a new project funded by USDA-NIFA through the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) 3.0 program. This 4-year project, in collaboration with an excellent interdisciplinary team of researchers, will develop “Configurable, Adaptive, and Scalable Swarm (CASS) of Ground and Aerial Robots for Collaborative Smart Agriculture.”  Read more about this project on Texas A&M Today and The Eagle.

[Call for Study Participants | 02/16/21 – NEW] We are calling for your participation in our ongoing study for testing the e-Cube games designed for cognitive assessment developed under the support of NSF. The study takes place in Texas A&M Human Clinical Research Facility where extensive COVID-19 related safety protocols are in place. If you are interested, please send an email to Kiju Lee or Xiangyi Cheng for more information. A $10 gift card will be given to all participants upon completion as a token of our sincere appreciation. Click here for more information.

[Research News | 04/08/20] Prof. Lee and her team starts a new DARPA OFFSET Sprint 5 project (PI: Kiju Lee, 04/03/20 – 01/02/21) to develop an adaptive Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot (α-WaLTR) for versatile locomotion in urban military environments.

Project team: Chuanqi Zheng (Technical Lead, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU); Siddharth Nitin Sane (Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU); Vishnu Kalyanram (Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU); Sohil Parsana (Graduate Student, Industrial and Systems Engineering, TAMU); Jenna Horn (Undergraduate Student, TAMU)

[Research News  | 01/31/20] Prof. Lee received a new NSF award (PI: Kiju Lee, 09/01/20 – 01/31/21, Award No. 2002721) to develop an interactive block game technology for routine cognitive assessment in older adults and explore its commercial potential.

Project team: Xiangyi Cheng (Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, TAMU)

[Research Highlight] The α-SWAT team (PI: Kiju Lee – Texas A&M University; Co-PIs: Michael Fu, Dustin Tyler, and Wyatt Newman – Case Western Reserve University) along with the two Swarm Systems Integrators (Raytheon and Northrop Grumman) and other Sprint-3 teams (Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Charles Rivers Inc., and Soar Technology) participated in the DARPA OFFSET’s 3rd field experiment. The field experiment took place in the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center in Mississippi. Please read the news release.

[Publication] Our latest origami-inspired robot, named TWISTER Hand, has been published in IEEE Transaction on Robotics (2020).

[Research Highlight] September 1, 2019. DARPA OFFSET Sprint 3 project (α-SWAT) continues to build a new mixed reality simulation environment with an embedded novel consensus algorithm for adaptive human swarm teaming. Stay tuned for more information!