Sound Navigation: Enabling Tiny Robots to Find Their Way Through Smoke, Dust, and Darkness — NSF Award to Worcester Polytechnic In
This award will support fundamental research to enable aerial robots smaller than 100 millimeters and weighing less than 100 grams to navigate through cluttered surroundings in the presence of smoke, darkness, dust, fog, and snow. To accomplish this in a completely self-contained way, the robots in this project will us
| Award title | Sound Navigation: Enabling Tiny Robots to Find Their Way Through Smoke, Dust, and Darkness |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2516439 |
| Awardee | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| City | WORCESTER |
| State | MA |
| Amount obligated | $704,908 |
| Principal investigator | Nitin Sanket |
| Program | FRR-Foundationl Rsrch Robotics, Special Initiatives |
| Start date | 09/01/2025 |
| Abstract | This award will support fundamental research to enable aerial robots smaller than 100 millimeters and weighing less than 100 grams to navigate through cluttered surroundings in the presence of smoke, darkness, dust, fog, and snow. To accomplish this in a completely self-contained way, the robots in this project will use sound waves instead of light to sense nearby objects. Sound waves penetrate much farther than light through airborne particles, but are easily confused by propellor noise and are |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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