Around the lab
Research milestones, robotics competitions, and opportunities to share our work with the community.
Resolve features David Saldaña and Cristian-Ioan Vasile’s NSF CAREER research. Saldaña’s project combines adaptive control and reinforcement learning to help aerial robots manipulate flexible objects such as cables, rods, hoses, and sheets.
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David Saldaña joins NSF’s Discovery Files podcast to discuss resilient and adaptive aerial robots and how they can collaborate with people and other robots.
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PI David Saldaña receives the NSF CAREER Award to advance aerial robotics capable of manipulating flexible objects and adapting to shifting forces in midair.
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Lehigh Swarms wins the Fall 2024 Defend the Republic drone competition at Indiana University, demonstrating the team’s progress in autonomous robotic blimps.
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A hands-on introduction to robotics engineering for middle-school girls through the Lehigh CHOICES program.
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David Saldaña and Subhrajit Bhattacharya receive a three-year, nearly $600,000 NSF grant to develop aerial robots that use cables, knots, and hitches to grasp and transport objects.
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SwarmsLab’s robotic blimp appears on the cover of Resolve’s Spring 2024 issue, Taking Flight, which highlights robotics research and student opportunities at Lehigh.
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Resolve explores SwarmsLab’s research on aerial manipulation using cables, knots, and hitches, alongside the lab’s role in the Defend the Republic competition and opportunities for students in aerial robotics.
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Lehigh Swarms won MVP at DTR Event 8 among ten universities. Mochi 3.0 demonstrated autonomous collaborative capturing and scoring.
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SwarmsLab hosted seven other universities at Lehigh’s Mountaintop campus for the fall blimp competition.
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Lehigh’s team qualified ahead of the other teams and placed third in its second appearance at the blimp competition.
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A day of talks, posters, and demos at Lehigh AIRLab, featuring five invited research presentations.
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Resolve Magazine visits the Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory on Lehigh’s Mountaintop campus.
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Communications of the ACM features ModQuad, our modular aerial robots that dock and self-assemble in midair.
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Our research team demonstrates ModQuad on Discovery Channel Canada’s Daily Planet. Watch the trailer featuring our self-assembling modular aerial robots.
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