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Counter-drone concept: DARC Lab wins $225K High Tech West pitch competition

High Tech West (HTW) is the University of Utah’s premier annual R&D pitch competition (Feb 25–26, 2026), focusing on accelerating technologies for national defense, aerospace, and medicine in complex, austere environments. DARC Lab and collaborators (X. He, M. Minor, Q. Tian, and experts from Idaho National Lab, […]

Research published in ASME J. of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems

S. K. McKee, O. Haddadin and K. K. Leang. Feedforward Mutual-Information Anomaly Detection: Application to Autonomous Vehicles, ASME J. of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 041003 (7 pages), published online in Dec. 22, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064519 ABASTRACT: This paper describes a mutual-information (MI)-based approach […]

Article published in Smart Material and Structures journal– Engineered IPMC sensors: modeling, characterization, and application towards wearable postural-tactile measurementNew article

W. S. Nagel, O. Fakharian, M. Aureli, and K.K. Leang, Engineered IPMC sensors: modeling, characterization, and application towards wearable postural-tactile measurement, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 33, pp. 015035 (12pp), 2024 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-665X/ad142b ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the modeling and development of engineered ionic polymer-metal composite (eIPMC) […]