Robotics and Uninhabited Systems

An autonomous or uninhibited system is a robot with little to no interference from humans—it reacts to situations as a human would. Systems that are autonomous are efficient, improve safety, reduce waste, and perform tasks to free up human time. Aside from the everyday tasks an autonomous system can do, extraordinary circumstances are improved too—like a robot that can fill up a satellite with a tank of gas. 

Big commercial satellites are costly. They run out of fuel or malfunction or break down. They would like to be able to go up there and fix it, but nowadays it’s impossible.

Ou Ma Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Active Research Faculty

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Kelly Cohen

Professor

513-556-3523

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in UAVs


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Daniel R. Cuppoletti

Assistant Professor

513-556-5460

Research Interests: UAV Aeroacoustics


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Sameh A. Eisa

Assistant Professor

513-556-3572

Research Interests: Control Systems


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John Christopher Gallagher

Professor

513-556-2988

Research Interests: UAV controls and detecting


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Donghoon Kim

Assistant Professor

513-556-5365

Research Interests: Fault-tolerant autonomous systems


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Manish Kumar

Professor

513-556-5311

Research Interests: UAVs, robotics and decision making


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Tamara Lorenz

Psychology-Mechanical Engineering-Electrical Engineering (jointly appointed)

513-556-2625

Research Interests: Human-robot interaction


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Ou Ma

Alan B Shepard Chair Professor

513-556-3747

Research Interests: Robotics and autonomous systems
Lab Website: Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory


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Catharine L McGhan

Assistant Professor

513-556-3032

Research Interests: Intelligent robotics


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Massoud Rabiee

Professor

513-556-6559

Research Interests: Digital controls, automation


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Rajnikant Sharma

Assoc Professor

513-556-2946

Research Interests: UAV navigation without GPS


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Dieter Frans S. Vanderelst

Biology-Mechanical Engineering-Electrical Engineering-Psychology (jointly appointed)

513-556-4058

Research Interests: Flight control, robotic models


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UC students design custom satellites

September 10, 2020

Engineering students at the University of Cincinnati are building tiny custom satellites to help scientists study some of the Earth’s most pressing environmental problems from space.

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