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Current Projects

• Precision Pollination Robot
  
• Sponsors: USDA/NIFA National Robotics Initiative
• NASA Centennial (Sample Return Robot) Challenge
  
• Sponsors: NASA WV Space Grant Consortium, Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, MAE Department, LCSEE Department, WVHTC Foundation
• Cooperative UAV Navigation using Inter-Vehicle Range and Bearing Measurements
  
• Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory
• Cooperative Gust Sensing and Suppression for Aircraft Formation Flight (in collaboration with WVU FCSL)
  
• Sponsor: NASA Aeronautics Research Institute, Leading Edge Aeronautics Research for NASA (LEARN)
• Enabling Moving Target Hand-off in GPS-Denied Environments
  
• Sponsor: Systems and Technology Research (AF STTR)
• Validation Tools for an Information Fusion Based Integrated Flight Safety Monitor
  
• Sponsor: NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP), Vehicle Systems Safety Technologies (VSST) Project

Past Projects

• Verification and Validation of Autonomous Flight in an Unstructured and GPS Degraded Environment
  
• Sponsor: NASA Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) Facility and NASA WV Space Grant Consortium
• Development of an Undergraduate Course in Mobile Robotics
  
• Sponsor: NASA WV Space Grant Consortium, Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, MAE
• Department, and LCSEE Department Development of Remote Sensing Capabilities for Highway Applications
  
• Sponsors: Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center (MAUTC) WV Department of Transportation/WV Division of Highway

Facility and Equipment

IRL operates autonomous aerial and ground vehicles and performs both indoor and outdoor experiments.