During the Pandemic, robot applications were increasingly used in pharmaceuticals, and packaging industry. One Statler College project uses an aerial robot to create 3D maps for assessing pillar and roof damage in mines. One USDA grant will develop robot bees for pollination. Another grant from Amazon will use parallel and cloud computing to develop autonomous mobile robots. One grant project allows self-driving vehicles respond to mixed traffic environment.
Areas of robotics research at the Statler College can be found below and robotic
teams can be found at robotics.wvu.edu.
Research Areas
- Robust Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Multi-Agent Systems, Swarms
- Navigation in GPS Denied/Degraded Environments
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Agricultural Robotics
- UAVs and Other Aerospace Systems for Defense
- Image and Video Processing
- Non-Terrestrial Robotic Systems
- Subterranean Robotic Systems, Automated Construction and Mining
- Autonomous Navigation in Underground Mines
- Health Care Robotics
- Visual Perception and Machine Vision for Robotics