Research Grants

Current Research Grants

Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing (ARM) Institute (Glenn Saunders Agung Julius, John Wen), Multi-Robot Task Planning in Large Structure Manufacturing,, 11/1/22 to 10/31/23, $320,197
Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing (ARM) Institute (John T. Wen Johnson Samuel, Agung Julius, Santiago Paternain, Glenn Saunders), Convergent Manufacturing using Multiple Industrial Robots, 11/1/22 to 10/31/23, $575,000
Army Research Office (Agung Julius John Wen), Biomathematics: Personalized Optimal Regulation of Circadian Rhythms and Related Processes, 04/1/22 to 03/31/25, $503,935
NASA Goddard Flight Research Center (John Wen ), Technology Development for Robotic Servicing of Orbital Space Assets (4), 10/1/17 to 04/15/23, $249,829
New York State Empire State Development (ESD) Division on Science, Technology, and Innovation (NYSTAR) (John Wen ), Regional Robotic Innovation Collaborative (RRIC) of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, 07/1/17 to 06/30/24, $2.5M.

Completed Research Grants

Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing (ARM) Institute (Glenn Saunders John T. Wen), Safe Robotic Handling of Energetic Materials, 01/1/22 to 12/31/22, $450,000
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute (John T. Wen Agung Julius, Santiago Paternain, Glenn Saunders), Robot Motion Program for Tracking Complex Geometric Paths, 01/1/22 to 12/31/22, $405,163
Center for Economic Growth (John T. Wen ), Path Planning and Tra- jectory Generation for Accurate Tracking of Complex Robot Tool Motion, 07/1/21 to 09/15/21, $25,000
ARM Institute (Glenn Saunders John T. Wen), Robotic Assistant for Repurposable Fabric Fusing Operations, 01/4/21 to 12/31/21, $951,106
ARM Institute (Glenn Saunders John T. Wen), Distributed and Coordinated Multi-Robot Assembly of Large Structures, 08/20/20 to 08/31/21, $564,482
ARM Institute (John T. Wen ), Open Source Teach Pendant Programming Environment, 10/1/19 to 05/31/21, $280,729
ARM Institute (subcontract from Boeing) (John T. Wen ), Teaming for Composite Ply Lay-up and Conforming,, 08/1/19 to 11/8/20, $172,500
ARM Institute (John T. Wen ), Robot Raconteur: an Interoperable Middleware for Robotics, 07/1/19 to 11/30/20, $583,911.
ARM Institute (Subcontract from Raytheon Technology Research Center) (John T. Wen ), Advanced Control for Robotics Surface Treatment, 05/1/19 to 09/30/20, $225,000
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute (John Wen Glenn Saunders, Richard Radke, Jeff Trinkle, Dan Walczyk), Robot Assistant for Composites Manufacturing, 12/21/17 to 04/20/19, $692,400
Craig Nielsen Foundation (John Wen, jointly with Bill Messner, Gary Bedell, Sarah Skeels of Tufts University ), Robot Assistance with Activities of Daily Living for Persons with C4-C7 Spinal Cord Injury, 10/1/17 to 09/30/19, $29,403
Army Research Office (John Wen Agung Julius), A Quantitative Approach to the Biochronicity of Circadian Rhythm, Sleep, and Neurobehavioral Performance, 09/1/17 to 04/30/21, $328,824
National Science Foundation (Robert Hull Antoinette Maniatty, John Wen, Dan Lewis), Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF), Adaptive Control of Microstructure from the Microscale to the Macroscale, 09/1/17 to 08/31/22, $1,524,300
NASA Goddard Flight Research Center (John Wen ), Technology Development for Robotic Servicing of Orbital Space Assets (3), 10/1/16 to 09/30/17, $200,000
Office of Naval Research (John Wen Shankar Narayanan), Distributed System Level Thermal Management of High Transient Heat Loads using Microchannel Evaporators, 08/15/16 to 12/31/20, $555,915
NASA Goddard Flight Research Center (John Wen ), Technology Development for Robotic Servicing of Orbital Space Assets (2), 10/1/15 to 09/30/16, $200,000
NASA Goddard Flight Research Center (John Wen ), Technology Development for Robotic Servicing of Orbital Space Assets (1), 10/1/14 to 09/30/15, $150,000
NASA Goddard Flight Research Center (Riccardo Bevilacqua John Wen), SSCO Technology Development for Robotic Servicing of Orbital Space Assets, 05/1/14 to 09/30/14, $166,476 (John Wen portion)
Army Research Office (John Wen Agung Julius), Short Term Innovative Research (STIR), Light-based Circadian Rhythm Modeling and Control, 12/1/13 to 08/31/14, $50,000
National Science Foundation (Robert Hull Antoinette Maniatty, John Wen, Dan Lewis), Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF), Real Time Control of Grain Growth in Metals, 07/1/13 to 06/30/16, $1,285,243
Office of Naval Research (John Wen Yoav Peles, Michael Jensen), Systems Level Thermal Management for Multiple High Transient Heat Loads, 02/1/13 to 01/31/16, $430,233
National Science Foundation (Sandipan Mishra John Wen, Koushik Kar), Human-Mediated Intelligent Control of Building Energy Systems, 09/15/12 to 08/14/16, $585,000
HP Labs (Sandipan Mishra John Wen), Intelligent Human Centered Building Environment Modeling and Control, 09/1/12 to 08/31/13, $75,000
Vivonics (John Wen Glenn Saunders), DOD Phase 2 SBIR Control for Tactile and Haptics Enabled Open Surgery Simulation, 01/2/12 to 06/30/13, $120,000
National Science Foundation (Sandipan Mishra John Wen), High-speed Estimation and Control using Slow-rate Integrative Image Sensors for Adaptive Optics, 09/1/11 to 08/31/14, $350,000
Boeing (Miki Amitay John Wen), Active Flow Control, 01/1/10 to 12/31/11, $62,256 (John Wen portion)
National Science Foundation (Robert Karlicek ), Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (now Light Enabled Systems and Applications, LESA, Center), 09/1/09 to 08/31/14, Approximately $100,000/year
New York State Division for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) (John Wen ), Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) (2), 07/1/09 to 06/30/14, $920,000/year
Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) (Michael Jensen Yoav Pelese, John Wen), System-Level Approach for Multi-Phase, Nanotechnology-Enhanced Cooling of High-Power Microelectronic Systems, 05/1/07 to 04/1/12, $3.4M
GE (John Wen ), Fiber Alignment for MEMS Fabry-Perot Interferometer, 01/1/07 to 04/1/07, $30,000
Crystal-IS (John Wen Bill Gressick, Antoinette Maniatty, Sheppard Salon), Process Efficiency Improvements for Aluminum Nitride Semiconductor Crystal Growth, 01/1/07 to 06/1/08, $250,00
Electro-Systems Inc. (Srinivas Akella John Wen), Quattro Optimization, 07/1/06 to 06/1/07, $60,000
National Institute of Standards and Technology (John Wen ), Insertion Tasks in Micro-Assembly, 06/1/06 to 05/31/07, $35,000
Electro-Systems Inc. (John Wen Michael Jensen), Thermal Error Research, 05/1/06 to 04/1/07, $60,000
Electro-Systems Inc. (John Wen ), Input Shaping Control for a Galvo Positioning System (6), 07/1/05 to 07/1/06, Phase VI: $60,000
New York State Division for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) (John Wen ), Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) (1), 07/1/05 to 06/30/09, $1M/year
Electro-Systems Inc. (John Wen ), Input Shaping Control for a Galvo Positioning System (5), 05/1/04 to 07/1/05, Phase V: $70,000
National Science Foundation (Mark Shephard ), Multiscale Systems Engineering for Nanocomposites, 09/1/03 to 08/31/06, Faculty participant, supported at ~$100K/yr
Electro-Systems Inc. (John Wen ), Input Shaping Control for a Galvo Positioning System (4), 08/1/03 to 05/1/04, Phase IV: $45,000
National Science Foundation (John Wen ), GOALI: Precision Motion Control with Iterative Input Refinement, 05/1/03 to 04/30/06, $271,000
Electro-Systems Inc. (John Wen ), Input Shaping Control for a Galvo Positioning System (3), 11/1/02 to 07/1/03, Phase III: $45,000
Electro-Systems Inc. (John Wen ), Input Shaping Control for a Galvo Positioning System (1), 08/1/01 to 12/1/01, Phase I: $45,000
Electro-Systems Inc. (John Wen ), Input Shaping Control for a Galvo Positioning System (2), 02/1/01 to 10/1/02, Phase II: $45,000
Proctor & Gamble (John Wen ), Modeling and Simulation of the Flexible Standard Converter System, 02/1/01 to 06/1/01, $60,000
National Science Foundation (John Wen ), Analysis, Synthesis, and Control of General Parallel Robotic Systems, 09/1/99 to 08/31/02, $200,000 + REU $10,000
National Science Foundation (John Wen ), Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Mechanical Systems, 09/1/98 to 08/31/01, $250,000 + REU $15,000
Scientific Systems Company Inc.: (John Wen ), Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Satellites, 04/1/98 to 03/31/00, $50,000
National Science Foundation (John Wen ), A Global Approach to Kinematic Path Planning, 09/1/94 to 08/31/97, $210,600 + REU $5,000
General Electric (John Wen ), Spacecraft Orbit Position Estimation, 02/1/94 to 12/31/94, $40,000
Aluminum Processing Program (Wojciech Misiolek ), Process Control in Aluminum Extrusion, Sponsoring companies: Werner, Alcoa, Reynold, Ormet, Kaiser, Exal, Hydro Aluminum, Alumex, Aluminum Shapes, Brazeway, 09/1/93 to 08/1/97, John Wen portion: $50,000/yr
Army Research Office (Kevin Craig John Wen, Dimitris Lagoudas), MURI: Interdisciplinary Basic Research in Smart Materials and Structures, 07/1/92 to 06/30/97, $2,000,000
National Science Foundation (John Wen ), Passive Feedback Control with Feedforward Compensation, 12/1/91 to 11/30/94, $197,112 + REU $5,000
National Institutes of Standard and Technology, Northeast Manufacturing Technology Center (Gene Simon ), Real–Time Control Systems effort (3), 01/1/91 to 05/30/91, $10,000
National Aeronautical and Space Administration (John Wen ), Manipulator Flexible Joint Control System Feasibility Study, 07/1/90 to 06/30/91, $24,000
National Institutes of Standard and Technology, Northeast Manufacturing Technology Center (Gene Simon ), Real–Time Control Systems effort (2), 07/1/90 to 12/31/90, $17,000
National Science Foundation (Joe Chow John Wen), Real Time Control Applications Laboratory Equipment, 09/1/89 to 02/1/91, $65,000
National Science Foundation (John Wen ), A Passivity Based Control Methodology for Distributed Parameter Systems, 09/1/89 to 02/1/92, $70,000 + REU $5,000
National Aeronautical and Space Administration (George Saridis ), Center of Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration, 09/1/89 to 10/31/92, $5,500,000
National Institutes of Standard and Technology, Northeast Manufacturing Technology Center (Gene Simon ), Real–Time Control Systems effort (1), 01/1/89 to 06/30/90, John Wen portion: $161,379