WVU IRL

Join us at the Interactive Robotics Lab! With an over 1.5:1 robot-to-human ratio, we build real robots and test them in challenging physical environments.

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Following the massive success of #wvurobotics at the international University Rover Challenge (URC), WVU URC team captain, Stephen Jacobs, a former IRL Graduate Researcher, has been recruited by @SpaceX for their @SpaceXStarship project!

Congratulations Stephen! Lets gooo!

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Let’s gooo!! Amazing result for #wvurobotics !!! 1st place in this high profile international competition!

Huge congratulations to @irl_wvu Yu Gu and all the talented and hardworking students from WVU MAE and LCSEE @wvustatler

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The new IRL twitter photo is up! Here is the full picture for reference, since Twitter limited the size. This includes all our current members.

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The IRL is proud of Jonas Bredu for the successful defense of his masters thesis in mechanical engineering: "Development of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle and Implementation of an Autonomous Navigation Module in a Mine Environment"

Well done, Jonas!
@BreduJonas

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Congratulations to the IRL's very own Dr. Nick Ohi on his successful dissertation defense today!

Dr. Ohi gave his opening presentation to a packed room and we are all very proud of his achievement!

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Jonas is a member of the IRL and is about to graduate from his Masters program!

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"The fantasies of previous days becomes tomorrow's survey paper."

-- Heath Cottrill

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A recent WVU magazine article that features members of the IRL and WVU Robotics working on a robotic pollination project!

https://t.co/spp4Tl5wq0

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The IRL welcomes John Little!

John joined the lab in the Fall of 2022 and is pursuing a Masters in Computer Science.

https://t.co/7PCgkwtzyE

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The IRL welcomes Heath Cottrill!

He joined the lab in 2022 and is pursuing his Masters in Mechanical Engineering.

https://t.co/ruKO6xWsG8

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IRL welcomes Nathaniel "Nate" Pearson!

Nate is a new Computer Engineering PhD and enjoys hiking, robots, cooking, and riding his electric unicycle around campus.

He is interested in researching methods for meaningful spatial representation and how robots can be made to learn.

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The IRL welcomes new PhD student Madhav Rijal!

Madhav joined the lab in 2022 as a Mechanical Engineering PhD student and we look forward to working with him!

https://t.co/j4G1ZQMCiH

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The IRL welcomed Michael Butts at the beginning of the Fall semester:

Michael is working towards his Masters of Electrical Engineering and looks forward to working with the IRL!

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More Graduate Students!

The IRL welcomed Matt Collins over the Summer of 2022!

https://t.co/F527AmFhJE

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Welcome new Graduate Students!

Trevor Smith has been with IRL for a minute now, but he became one of our graduate students in 2022!

Click the link below to find out more about Trevor and his research interests!

https://t.co/A1Y2thl10R

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2020-2022, pandemic, but several big robots got designed and built

2022, six new grad students joined IRL, working on cool new projects.

Aug 2022, a new decade, theme: "in real life!"

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As of this August IRL is celebrating its ten year anniversary! Lots of things have happened in the last decade:

Aug 2012, beginning of IRL (Interactive Robotics Lab)
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Sep 2017, collaborating with JPL on rover Fast Traverse research, working on decision making under uncertainty problems. 6 IRL members worked at JPL for 10 weeks each.

Mar 2019, started NSF REU program, and swarm robotics.

May 2019, NASA NIAC award on planetary mission design