Walking into the 18,000-square-foot, high-bay robotics lab in Graf Hall at Oregon State University, one gets the sense that innovation is happening.
Part organized workshop, part messy art studio, the expansive space corrals a vast assortment of robotics projects, where dozens of students are head down in computer code or tinkering with machinery.
In 2023, wind turbines generated upwards of 425,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity in the United States, enough to run more than 39 million average American homes. Wind is the country’s largest renewable energy source, representing about 10% of all electricity production.
Is it possible for one person to supervise a swarm of more than 100 autonomous ground and aerial robots? Absolutely, according to research conducted by Julie A. Adams, professor of computer science at Oregon State University.
Fresh from a 10-week summer software engineering internship with Medtronic in Boston, Lesly Rojas started her third year as an electrical and computer engineering student full of enthusiasm for medical technology research.
A smart compost bin being developed at Oregon State University could help to make a dent in a multibillion-dollar problem: More than one-third of all food produced in the U.S. goes uneaten. “At every other step of the agricultural supply chain, food waste is tracked, measured and quantified,” said Patrick Donnelly, assistant professor of computer science, who is leading the project.
Brian H. Do is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University and his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in mechanical engineering. He completed his doctoral work in the CHARM Lab and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Yale University Faboratory.
Professor Julie A. Adams and her team of roboticists are hard at work developing a set of adaptive capabilities for human-robot teaming. In a recent interview, Adams explained her team’s focus on swarm robotics, where hundreds of robots are deployed simultaneously. The team’s goal is to enable a single human to deploy and control a robot swarm while maintaining a normal workload without being overburdened.
As Oregon State University’s Senior Advisor to the Provost for Strategic Initiatives, Dr. Belinda Batten provides research, planning, and execution for selected university-level strategic initiatives and projects that span academic and administrative portfolios. In this role, Dr. Batten provides leadership to accelerate selected high-priority initiatives and ensure their success.
Dr. Wilson is a Research Associate in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems institute at Oregon State University. She grew up in Northwest Oregon and received her BS from Pacific University in 2012. Dr. Wilson is a cognitive scientist. She received her MS and PhD in cognitive psychology from Washington State University. From 2018 to 2022 she held a joint position as a postdoctoral research fellow in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab at the University of Pennsylvania and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at Temple University.
