Lab Focus

The Stinger Labs focuses on eclectic robotics and automation (ERA), integrating ideas and concepts from disparate fields into robotics and automation. Taking a systems perspective, we aim to understand the causality and inheritance of the subdisciplines within a robotic system to enhance system reconfigurability and rapid deployment which are essential in situations of distress and imminent danger. With this approach, the Stinger Labs seeks to become the impetus for the new ERA in field robotics, where humans are removed from dangerous working environments and conditions.

Our research focuses on field robotics with emphasis in cooperative and coordinated multi-robot systems and cyber-enabled manufacturing technologies. Our applications include search and rescue operations, remote Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO), automated structure development, small scale assembly, and space robotics for planetary reconnaissance.