Brett Lopez, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA, has received a grant from the Army Research Laboratory worth more than $1.1 million to develop autonomy algorithms for long-duration operations of autonomous vehicles in complex environments. The project aims to develop techniques for enabling autonomous platforms to continuously localize, map, and plan over an extended duration, long-distance mission. This work will enable autonomous vehicles to scale their operations to long distances (10’s of kilometers) and long time horizons (hours to days) which is critical to achieve widespread adoption of autonomous systems in safety- and time-critical applications.
Assistant Professor Brett Lopez Receives Over $1M Research Grant from the Army Research Laboratory
