Past Projects

Forestry Drones: Flight Under Trees Canopies

Funded by the Statler PhD Fellowship, this project aims to develop autonomic capabilities for the flight of a drone under trees canopies without previous knowledge of the environment.

FARO Participants: Bernardo Martinez, Guilherme Pereira.

Parallel and Cloud Computation for Long-term Robotics

Funded by the Amazon Research Award, this project will investigate how parallel and cloud computing can be used in the development of long-term autonomous mobile robots, also known as long-running robots.

FARO Participants: Guilherme Pereira, Bernardo Martinez.

Agricultural Rover

Funded by WVU's Research and Scholarship Advancement (RSA) Grant, this project aims to develop and evaluate an agricultural robot for use in small-scale production farms.

FARO Participants: Bert Wieliczko, Jeremy Rathjen, Lucas Hehl, Hunter Bontranguer, Kevin Legrand, Guilherme Pereira.

Exploration With Tethered Robots

Funded by the NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, this project aims to develop an algorithm that can be used to explore any arbitrary environment with a tethered mobile robot, while keeping the tether tangle-free. The project is currently in its final stages, with multiple successful simulations and real-world experiments.

FARO Participants : Danylo Shapovalov, Guilherme Pereira.