{"659095":{"#nid":"659095","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ye Zhao Receives NSF CAREER Project Award for Human-Cooperative Robot Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/beta.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/faculty-early-career-development-program-career\u0022\u003EFaculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program\u003C\/a\u003E is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation\u0026#39;s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor his submission, \u0026quot;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2144309\u0022\u003EInteractive Decision-making and Resilient Planning for Safe Legged Locomotion and Navigation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026quot;,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/ye-zhao\u0022\u003EProfessor\u0026nbsp;Zhao\u003C\/a\u003E, received\u0026nbsp;a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project award that will support his research that aims to bridge fundamental gaps between state-of-the-art robot task and motion planning and the ultimate goals of safe and autonomous robot locomotion. The work will resolve major computational hurdles that have hindered the use of symbolic planning and decision-making methodologies on the highly nonlinear, hybrid, and under-actuated legged systems, reducing their ability to reliably operate in unstructured environments, efficiently collaborate with robot teammates, and safely interact with humans.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESpecific long-standing challenges to be addressed are robustness to contact terrain uncertainty, locomotion task generalization, navigation safety coupled with complex locomotion dynamics, and proactive interaction with pedestrians to avoid collisions. This project will move legged robotic systems from the research laboratory, and into challenging application domains such as disaster first responders, surveillance in civil and mechanical infrastructures, and planting in agricultural environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research is complemented by education activities to (i) integrate undergraduate students into a new experiment-focused research program through the multi-semester \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVertically Integrated Program (VIP) at Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E; (ii) host high school students from Atlanta minority-serving public schools to perform research and enhance underrepresented population participation in the greater Atlanta area; and (iii) broaden the societal impact by disseminating the integrated robotics research through an interactive workshop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe\u0026nbsp;project is supported by the cross-directorate Foundational Research in Robotics program, jointly managed and funded by the Directorates for Engineering (ENG) and Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).\u0026nbsp;This award reflects NSF\u0026#39;s statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation\u0026#39;s intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\u0026nbsp;Zhao received\u0026nbsp;a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project award to support his research that aims to bridge fundamental gaps between state-of-the-art robot task and motion planning and the ultimate goals of safe and autonomous robot locomotion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Interactive Decision-making and Resilient Planning for Safe Legged Locomotion and Navigation"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2022-06-25 08:29:27","changed_gmt":"2022-06-25 08:37:29","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"659094":{"id":"659094","type":"image","title":"Interactive Decision-making and Resilient Planning for Safe\u00a0Legged Locomotion and Navigation","body":null,"created":"1656145269","gmt_created":"2022-06-25 08:21:09","changed":"1656145370","gmt_changed":"2022-06-25 08:22:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"249837","name":"GTSCL-LIDAR-Zhao_16by9.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GTSCL-LIDAR-Zhao_16by9.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GTSCL-LIDAR-Zhao_16by9.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":284098,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GTSCL-LIDAR-Zhao_16by9.jpg?itok=9E-QuePx"}}},"media_ids":["659094"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/lab-idar.gatech.edu\/","title":"The Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots (LIDAR) at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"143201","name":"co-robots"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"},{"id":"377","name":"locomotion"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lab-idar.gatech.edu\/contact\/\u0022\u003ELIDAR Research Group\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}