Stephen Licht’s Research Profile

September 5, 2019

Recent Grants¹

Grant
6/14/2023. Co-PI. Dartmouth College. “RII Track-2 FEC: Computational Methods and Autonomous Robotics Systems for Modeling and predicting Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms.”
3/8/2023. PI. Office of Naval Research. “Quantitative soft gripper design tools to advance unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) autonomous intervention.”
1/4/2023. PI. Office of Naval Research “Quantitative soft gripper design tools to advance unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) autonomous intervention.”
9/23/2022. Co-PI. University of Maine. “Vision-Based Detection of Bridge Damage Captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.”
9/23/2022. Co-PI. University of Maine. “Vision-Based Detection of Bridge Damage Captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.”
9/1/2022. Co-PI. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce. “OECI NRDA – Coral Technology YR4_YR5.”
9/1/2022. Co-PI. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce. “OECI NRDA – Coral Technology YR4_YR5.”
3/25/2021. PI. Office of Naval Research. “Neptune: Advances in Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Autonomous Intervention.”
2/24/2021. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, US Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT 2020 COMP 25: Integrated analysis, design and operation evaluation of UUV Swarms.”
3/20/2020. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, US Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT: Comp 12: Lower Power, Lightweight autonomous Intervention tools for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.”
3/9/2020. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, US Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT: Comp 16: Agile & Resilient UUV Mission Planning Under Navigation Uncertainty, Time Pressure and Communication Constraints.”
2/13/2019. PI. Electro Standards Laboratory. “UUV Battery Management for Energy Efficient Depth Control and Station Keeping.”
8/2/2018. PI. US Department of Commerce NOAA. “Advances in Deep Sea Sampling with Soft Robotics.”
10/12/2017. PI. Naval Undersea Warfare Center. “NEEC: Modeling and Control of Agile Biologically Inspired Unmanned Underwater Vehicles.”
6/6/2017. PI. RI Department of Transportation. “Airborne Thermal Imaging of Bridge Deck Structures.”
1/12/2017. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “RAPID: Lidar and Sonar Surveys of a Dune Reinforced with Geosynthetic Sand Containers Impacted by Tropical Storm Hermine.”

Recent Publications¹

Citation
Capalbo CE, Tomaino D, Bruno F, Rizzo D, Phillips B, Licht S. A Soft Robot Gripper With Neutrally Buoyant Jamming Pads for Gentle Yet Secure Grasping of Underwater Objects. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2022. doi: 10.1109/JOE.2022.3156746
Ellenrieder KDV, Licht SC, Belotti R, Henninger HC. Shared Human-Robot path following control of an unmanned ground vehicle. Mechatronics, 2022; 83, 102750. doi: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2022.102750
Phillips BT, Allder J, Bolan G, et al. Additive Manufacturing Aboard a Moving Vessel at Sea Using Passively Stabilized Stereolithography (SLA) 3D Printing. Additive Manufacturing, 2020; 31, 100969. doi: 10.1016/j.addma.2019.100969
Phillips BT, Licht S, Haiat KS, et al. DEEPi: A Miniaturized, Robust, and Economical Camera and Computer System for Deep-Sea Exploration. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 2019; 153, 103136. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103136
Roman C, Ullman D, Licht S, et al. The Wire Flyer Towed Profiling System. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2019. doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0180.1
Yuan C, Licht S, He H. Formation Learning Control of Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Heterogeneous Nonlinear Uncertain Dynamics. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2018; 48(10):2920-2934. doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2017.2752458
Snyder W, Roman C, Licht S. Hybrid Actuation with Complementary Allocation for Depth Control of a Lagrangian Sea-Floor Imaging Platform. Journal of Field Robotics, 2018; 135(3), 330-344. doi: 10.1002/rob.21716

Patents

Hudson ET, Licht SC, Eickstedt DP, Inventors; Kongsberg Underwater Technology Inc, Assignee. Unmanned Underwater Vehicle. US Patent 20120289103. November 15, 2012

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