This faculty research team uses core principles of animal locomotion to create advanced robot technologies by distilling their mathematical principles and using machine learning automation.

The Mapleseed project is developing a passive (i.e., free-falling) wireless in-situ sensor platform for use in detailed sensing of various properties of Earth’s atmosphere. Students are developing minature wireless circuit boards (using TI cc1310 radio) along with 3D printed airframes.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) have been improving accident impact simulations by broadening the types of body sizes and shapes considered. Students will develop parametric human body models that are capable of testing wide ranges of body sizes, types, and shapes to help create better adaptive and personalized designs for human safety and mobility.

This research will make large-scale manufacturing systems safer, more secure, and more productive, enabling them to produce high-quality products for consumers at lower cost.

This faculty research team is designing a secure microblogging app, called Anonymouse, for smartphones in infrastructure-less environments without cellular or wifi service. Anonymouse is designed to support free speech by preventing blocking, censorship, and surveillance. Marketing, user experience, and communication technology development all play major roles in the project.

The Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) is an online platform including web-services and advanced methods and tools in probability, statistics, and machine learning in the health sector. This team will develop an enhanced analysis and visualization toolbox with an emphasis on “Big Data” - very large datasets that are difficult to analyze and interpret in meaningful ways with basic probability and statistical methods.

Our research develops human-centric strategies for automating video data extraction to record vehicle occupant behavior to support enhanced safety, autonomous vehicle development, and other applications.

To assess vehicle safety and ease to operation, we will improve upon the design of a virtual driving simulator through open-source software, simple hardware, and virtual roadway and scenario simulation.

This faculty research team presents a chance to join an exciting research group that designs sensors for spacecraft that explore extreme environments in space from the surface of the Sun to the outer edges of the solar system. We will design and test a Faraday cup to further our understanding of the Sun.

This faculty research team is designing a nanospacecraft and operating a space mission that will explore the feasibility of a novel propulsion technology – miniature electrodynamic tethers – as propellant-less propulsion to new classes of very small satellites known as picosats and femtosats. Students will create a spacecraft with an operational ED tether for the first experimental testing of propellantless operation in space.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a subfield of machine learning concerned with sequential decision making under uncertainty. In the past decade, RL has seen breakthroughs in game domains (such as AlphaGO and AlphaStar). However, applying RL to real-world applications is still challenging due to the requirement of online interaction and its susceptibility to distribution shift.

The Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) is an online platform including web-services and advanced methods in probability, statistics, and machine learning in the health sector. This team will develop an enhanced analysis and visualization toolbox with an emphasis on “Big Data” - very large datasets that are difficult to analyze and interpret in meaningful ways with basic probability and statistical methods.

The Mapleseed project is developing a passive (i.e., free-falling) wireless in-situ sensor platform for use in detailed sensing of various properties of Earth’s atmosphere. Students are developing miniature wireless circuit boards (using TI cc1310 radio) along with 3D printed airframes.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) have been improving accident impact simulations by broadening the types of body sizes and shapes considered. Students will develop parametric human body models that are capable of testing wide ranges of body sizes, types, and shapes to help create better adaptive and personalized designs for human safety and mobility.

To assess vehicle safety and ease to operation, we will improve upon the design of a virtual driving simulator through open-source software, simple hardware, and virtual roadway and scenario simulation.

This faculty research team designs ground radio instruments and data analysis pipelines to detect radio bursts from extreme space weather in collaboration with NASA's SunRISE mission, which will send up six SmallSats to Earth orbit to image the lowest frequency radio bursts for the first time.

This faculty research team uses core principles of animal locomotion to create advanced robot technologies by distilling their mathematical principles and using machine learning automation.

This faculty research team designs surgical devices, diagnostic tools, and assistive devices for people with low vision in collaboration with University of Michigan Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Kellogg Eye Center.

This faculty research team is designing a nanospacecraft and operating a space mission that will explore the feasibility of a novel propulsion technology – miniature electrodynamic tethers – as propellant-less propulsion to new classes of very small satellites known as picosats and femtosats. Students will create a spacecraft with an operational ED tether for the first experimental testing of propellantless operation in space.

This faculty research team uses core principles of animal locomotion to create advanced robot technologies by distilling their mathematical principles and using machine learning automation.

The Heliophysics team is designing a ground radio prototype and data analysis pipeline to detect radio bursts from extreme space weather in collaboration with NASA’s SunRISE mission, which will send up a space-based array composed of 6 small satellites to Earth orbit to image the lowest frequency radio bursts for the first time.

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are needed for studying Earth’s climate and for real time monitoring of the spread of viruses or pathogens such as those related to Covid-19. The Mapleseed team aims to develop miniaturized robotic vehicles (e.g., microdrones, mini-airplanes, and rovers) capable of carrying various sensors and automatically measuring certain atmospheric parameters and particle/virus concentrations in targeted spaces.

The CLUES Project uses artificial intelligence methods to index both what was said and visually presented in class sessions. Through this innovation an unprecedented data set is being created that identifies the knowledge being transmitted in college courses and allows students the ability to search for specific moments in their class sessions.

To assess vehicle safety and ease to operation, we will improve upon the design of a virtual driving simulator through open-source software, simple hardware, and virtual roadway and scenario simulation.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) have been improving accident impact simulations by broadening the types of body sizes and shapes considered. Students will develop parametric human body models that are capable of testing wide ranges of body sizes, types, and shapes to help create better adaptive and personalized designs for human safety and mobility.