Robotics

Experts on sensors

Sensors are devices that can detect the current state of or changes in physical aspects of the environment (temperature, light, moisture, pressure, and so on) and send signals to electronics that may then respond. Widely used in cars, appliances, buildings, electronic devices, medical devices, and many other kinds of applications, sensors are essential components of robots and robotic systems. WPI experts on sensors are employing sensors in all sorts of ways, including using vision sensors to help robots sort waste, using wireless bioelectric sensors in prosthetics, adding touch sensors to gloves used to teleoperate robots, and developing mathematical tools to help autonomous devices sift through reams of sensor data.

Berk Calli
  • Associate Professor Robotics Engineering
Professor Calli's main research focus is robotic manipulation and its applications in various domains such as waste recycling, assistive feeding, within-hand manipulation. His lab develops manipulation algorithms by combining techniques in computer
Ted Clancy
Ted Clancy
  • Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor Edward (Ted) A. Clancy has worked in industry for medical instrumentation and analysis companies interested in EMG, EEG, ECG and blood pressure, and the defense industry (aircraft instruments and radar). As professor of Electrical and Computer
Raghvendra V. Cowlagi
  • Associate Professor Aerospace Engineering
Professor Cowlagi's research addresses various aspects of autonomy of mobile vehicles such as unmanned aerial vehicles and self-driving cars, including how such vehicles understand their environments and make independent decisions.
Ulkuhan Guler
  • Associate Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor Guler's research interests lie in the broad area of circuits and systems, with a primary area of interest in analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits. More specifically, she is interested in the circuit design of sensing interfaces and energy   G...
John A. McNeill
  • Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering
John McNeill's research interests include the design of cutting-edge mixed (analog + digital) integrated circuits and systems with a focus on jitter (noise) in integrated oscillators and digitally assisted calibration of analog-to-digital converters used
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,
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 As ...