Current Projects
CPS: Synthetic, Distributed Sensing, Soft and Modular Tissue (sTISSUE)
Sponsor: NSF
Investigators: PI: Mark Rentschler (CU), Co-PI: Sean Humbert (CU), Christoph Keplinger (CU), Nikolaus Correll (CU)
AFOSR Center of Excellence on Nature Inspired Flight Technologies and Ideas (NIFTI)
Sponsor: AFOSR
Investigators: Sean Humbert (CU – Institute Lead); Tom Daniel (UW – Director, Institute Lead); Pamela Abshire (UMD – Institute Lead); Cindy Moss (Johns Hopkins – Institute Lead); Mark Willis (CWRU – Institute Lead)
Completed Projects
Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA)
Sponsor: ARL (Joseph Mait)
Investigators: Sean Humbert (CU – MCE Thrust Lead); Vijay Kumar (UPenn – CNC Thrust Lead); Kamal Sarabandi (Michigan – SPP Thrust Lead); Larry Matthies (JPL – JX Thrust Lead)
ARO Young Investigator – Insect-Inspired Visual Flight Control for Aerial Microsystems
Sponsor: ARO (Randy Zachary)
Collaborators: N/A
MURI – AIRFOILS: Animal-Inspired Robust Flight with Outer and Inner Loop Strategies
Sponsor: ONR (Marc Steinberg)
Collaborators: Kristi Morgansen (UW – PI), Jason Vance (College of Charleston)
Collision Avoidance and Local Guidance Based on Insect Visual Motion Processing
Sponsor: AFRL-Eglin (Johnny Evers)
Collaborators: Pat Shoemaker (Tanner Research, Inc.), David O’Carroll (Univ of Adelaide)
Bio-Inspired MAV Navigation in Cluttered Urban Environments
Sponsor: AFRL-WPAFB (Mark Mears)
Collaborators: Jim Paduano (Aurora Flight Sciences), Tim Horiuchi (UMD)
The Relationship Between Visual Sensor Equipment in Flying Insects and their Flight Performance – a ‘Neurobio-Engineering’ Approach
Sponsor: AFOSR (Willard Larkin)
Collaborators: Holger Krapp (Imperial College)
MURI – Biologically Inspired Flapping Flight
Sponsor: AFOSR (Doug Smith)
Collaborators: Wei Shyy (Univ of Michigan)
AD-150 Tilt Duct VTOL Flight Dynamics Modeling
Sponsor: Maryland Industrial Partnerships – MIPS (Ronnie Gist)
Collaborators: Paul Vasilescu (ADFS), Jewel Barlow (UMD)
Optical Flow and Electroreception for Underwater Motion Coordination and Homing
Sponsor: ONR (Tom McKenna)
Collaborators: Derek Paley (UMD), Tim Curtis (DeepQuest Engineering)
Biologically Inspired Hazard Detection and Collision Avoidance for the LIIVE – Low Design-Impact Inspection Vehicle
Sponsor: NRL (Glen Henshaw)
Collaborators: Jim Paduano (Aurora Flight Sciences), Dave Miller (MIT)
Autonomous Flight of a Robotic Samara Micro-Air-Vehicle and Control Model for Robotic Samara
Sponsor: MURI (ARO)
Collaborators: Dean Darryll Pines (PI), Evan Ulrich, Sean Humbert
MEMS Setae for Bio-Inspired Wind and Lift Sensing
Sponsor: ARL (Ed Measure)
Collaborators: Jim Paduano (Aurora Flight Sciences)
