MAE - Campbell Group

Our research group studies autonomous and semi-autonomous systems, with a special emphasis on robotics, aerospace applications, formation flying satellites, nonlinear estimation theory, cooperative estimation and control, and structural dynamics and control. Links on the left detail Professor Campbell's bio, courses, students and staff, and publications.

• Cooperative Tracking
  Sponsor: AFOSR with the Insitu Group
  Target tracking for single and multiple UAV’s. Stationary/moving targets. Visible and IR cameras. Cooperative planning.
  
• Decision Modeling
  Sponsor: AFOSR
  Operator decision models for users controlling multiple vehicles. Hybrid models with probabilistic transitions. AFRL Human Effectiveness Directorate led experiments with AFRL subject pool.
  
• Large Scale Robotics
  Sponsor: DARPA
  Real time perception and planning with robotic vehicles.
  
• Sensor Fusion
  Sponsors: Lockheed Martin, NASA, NSF
  On-line 3D models of an environment to a given probability. Real time, decentralized particle filters, co-evolutionary identification
  
• Human-Robotic Interaction
  Sponsors: AFOSR MURI
  MURI with CMU, MIT, GWU, UPitt, with an objective of developing synergies between humans and automation. Our project focuses on modeling human decision making in order to consider humans as sensors or decision makers in a network.

• Semi-Autonomous Cooperative Control (DARPA, AFRL)
  
• Hybrid Estimation (NSF)
  
• Formation Flying Spacecraft (NASA GSFC, JPL, CETDP, AFRL)
  
• Active State Modeling (DARPA SEC, UW RRF)
  
• Mixed Initiative Control of Automata Teams (DARPA MICA)
  
• Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (Primex, WTC)
  
• Intelligent Satellite Systems (NIAC)
  
• Active Isolation for SIM (NASA JPL)
  
• MACE, High Performance Structures (NASA)