Experts on autonomy
Technology that can work with autonomy, or without human intervention or control, is playing an increasingly important role in a number of fields, including transportation, medicine, and manufacturing. WPI experts on autonomy include engineers and scientists who conduct research on a wide range of topics connected with autonomous systems, including the use of autonomous robots in surgery and medical imaging, and in space exploration; the importance of intravehicular communications in the success of autonomous vehicles; human interaction with autonomous systems, and even the use of autonomy in music performance.
Scott D Barton
- Professor Humanities & Arts
Professor Barton composes and performs electro acoustic music, designs and builds robots, and conducts psychological research. He combines these efforts in the development of technological tools that inspire creativity and enable meaningful humanBarton dir...
Gregory S. Fischer
- Professor Robotics Engineering
Professor Fischer develops surgical robotics, including MRI-compatible robotic devices for enhancing cancer diagnosis, add intelligent automation to telesurgery, and develop assistive robotics, including socially assistive robots and wearable physically
Lee Moradi
- Professor of Practice Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Lee Moradi is an expert on autonomous vehicles. He is a professor in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, co-director of the WPI’s Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute and co-lead of the WPI Autonomous Systems Lab, which was established...
Cagdas Onal
- Associate Professor Robotics Engineering
Professor Onal conducts research in soft robotics, a largely underexplored area of robotics that has significance in medicine, manufacturing, and disaster response. Soft robots could potentially be deployed in search-and-rescue missions, as intelligent
Carlo Pinciroli
- Associate Professor/Graduate Coordinator Robotics Engineering
Professor Pinciroli's research focuses on designing innovative tools for swarm robotics. The ultimate goal of my work is to create a resilient, easily deployable hardware/software robotic infrastructure for dangerous missions such as disaster response,
Erin Solovey
- Associate Professor Computer Science
Much of Professor Solovey's work explores effective human interaction with complex and autonomous systems and vehicles. One focus of research is on next-generation interaction techniques, such as brain-computer interfaces, physiological computing, and
Alexander Wyglinski
- Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor Wyglinski's work focuses on devising new, reliable, and robust wireless communications using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Given society's growing reliance on wireless connectivity, it is important that wireless communications
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Haichong Zhang
- Associate Professor Robotics Engineering
Professor Zhang is the founding director of the Medical Frontier Ultrasound Imaging and Robotic Instrumentation (Medical FUSION) Laboratory. The research in his lab focuses on the interface of medical imaging, sensing, and robotics; and on developing