{"id":28296,"date":"2019-08-15T20:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T00:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?p=28296"},"modified":"2021-08-17T00:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T04:10:42","slug":"tailor-made-robots-for-situational-success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/tailor-made-robots-for-situational-success-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailor-made Robots for Situational Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robots are solving some of the world\u2019s most pressing challenges. Systems engineers are at the core of these solutions, skillfully suiting robots and computers to fulfill situational needs.\u00a0\u00a0As one of the top seven robotics programs recognized by<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.analyticsinsight.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Analytics Insight<\/a>, SE graduate students are \u201cpushing the boundaries of robotic systems to the next level.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsiveVideo responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2yp69aM6Dcg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Systems Engineering PhD candidate Guang Yang (\u201820)<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>works on a surveillance drone project in the Robotics Lab. Yang is responsible for flagging safety concerns and correcting the behavior. He spends his time optimizing algorithms and running tests, getting closer and closer to producing consumer-ready technology.\u00a0\u201c<em>You have to constantly check back to the real world application to see [if the calculations] on paper actually make sense in the real world<\/em>,\u201d Yang said. When the drone project is finished, it will have multiple industrial applications such as search and rescue and monitoring crop growth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsiveVideo responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3gp7Zursf6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Noushin Mehdipour (SE PhD \u201920)<\/strong>\u00a0works at the BU Robotics Lab and takes a theoretical approach to robotic systems. As a 3rd year PhD student, Mehdipour is emerging as a top researcher and appreciates working in an interdisciplinary environment with researchers from different backgrounds and engineering disciplines. Her research is a combination of applied machine learning and optimization, data analysis, and control theory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsiveVideo responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/23tAipIQupE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Arian Houshmand (SE PhD \u201920)<\/strong>\u00a0works at the CODES Lab on a self-driving car project,\u00a0ARPA-E NEXTCAR. His goal is to reduce the amount of energy these cars consume. Traffic increases energy consumption, so Houshmand\u2019s team is programing the cars to avoid and also reduce traffic. Houshmand designs algorithms that deploy a communication system between the cars. The system enables cars to share information about traffic patterns and react accordingly. \u00a0For Houshmand, a perk of this project is contributing to the greater good and improving the environment. He also appreciates the real-world\u00a0experience.\u00a0\u201c<em>When you\u2019re in school, usually, you don\u2019t have a chance to implement your algorithms<\/em>,\u201d Houshmand said.\u00a0Self-driving cars are tested at M-City in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while local tests are conducted in the CODES lab. Earlier this year, Houshmand and his lab mates designed a scaled-down model of M-City to mimic real-life test simulations.\u00a0The project is highly collaborative, with contributors based at the\u00a0University of Delaware, University of Michigan, Oak Ridge National Lab and Bosch.<\/p>\n<p>BU systems engineers are conducting robotics research at multiple dedicated laboratories and research centers on campus. A key research area within the Division of Systems Engineering is automation, robotics and control. This area encompasses cyber-physical systems, teams of autonomous agents, networked control systems, image-guided surgery, control of material processes and nanoscale systems.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<em>With AI projected to only grow in the coming years, students are looking towards top programs like BU\u2019s to position themselves at the forefront of the field<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0says Professor and Director of the BU Robotics Lab Calin Belta (ME, SE, ECE).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots are solving some of the world\u2019s most pressing challenges. Systems engineers are at the core of these solutions, skillfully suiting robots and computers to fulfill situational needs.\u00a0\u00a0As one of the top seven robotics programs recognized by\u00a0Analytics Insight, SE graduate students are \u201cpushing the boundaries of robotic systems to the next level.\u201d Systems Engineering PhD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18553,"featured_media":28561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33552,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296\/revisions\/33552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}