Research Opportunities

From MARHES

If you are interested in being part of MARHES or want to discuss a research topic, please, send an email to Rafael Fierro
Here is an incomplete list of possible MARHES research topics:

Areas of Interest:

• Cooperative control of multi-vehicle systems (UGV, UAV, UUV)
• UAV formation flight
• Hybrid control of nonlinear interconnected systems
• Formal analysis of networked embedded systems
• Uncertain hybrid systems
• Optimization-based control of dynamic networks
• Abstraction and model reduction in hybrid and embedded systems
• Wireless networks of mobile sensors
• Human-multiple distributed robots interaction
• Autonomous formation switching
• Cooperative control of mobile sensor networks
• Something really cool.....

Projects for Undergraduate and Master Students:

• Convoy-like formation of car-like robots
• Omni-directional vision sensor
• Control of unmanned aerial vehicles UAV's (e.g., blimp, quadrotor)
• Global vision based positioning system
• Wireless control of underactuated mechanical systems
• Multi-robot systems in agriculture
• A search and rescue multi-robot system
• Closed loop control over wireless networks
• Design of a small manipulator for the MARHES mobile robot
• A tour guide using the MARHES' Scorpion robot
• Hardware-in-the-loop HIL for UAV formation flight

Research Topics for Ph.D., Students:

• Cooperative control of dynamic networks
• Formation Flight
• Hybrid control of large-scale interconnected systems
• Formal analysis of wireless robotic networks
• Optimization based cooperative control

How to become part of MARHES

Potential MARHES students should have strong background in math and control theory, and interest/expertise in any of the following areas: Hybrid control systems, optimization, robotics, autonomous multi-vehicle systems, computer vision, and robotics. Ph.D., students should have a master degree in EE or CS. Programming Skills (C++, Matlab) are a plus.

We highly encourage to learn more about our work by reading some of our [publications].

Dr. Rafael Fierro
The University of New Mexico
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
MSC01 1100
1 The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
ECE Bldg Rm. 137B
Tel. (505) 277 4125
rfierro(at)ece.unm.edu