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Advanced Robotic/Control Research Group (ARC-RG)


 External Awarded Grants:

  • (PI) Department of Defense(DoD)- Army, 2024 Research Equipment Grant to HBCU/MSI, ”Acquisition of Cyber Security Autonomous Heterogeneous Vehicles Laboratory for Research and Teaching in Applied Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Control Systems and Outreach to High School Students/Teachers.”, $335,194, 2024-2025.
  • (PI) The California State University, Chancellor’s Office (CSUCO), The STEM-NET Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Program (2024/25), ”Enhancement of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and Grid Integration to Address Climate Change through AI-Driven Solutions”, $25,000, 2025-2026. 
  • Thanks to AMD for their generous donation of mulitple Kria KV260 Vistion AI Starter Kits and Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kits to the lab throuh the AMD University Program, fostering advancements in education and research in AI and Robotics, 2025.
  • (Co-PI) NSF CYBERCORPS:SFS award (#2234922), CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): Expanding the Reach of Cybersecurity Training at Sacramento State, $3,094,046, 2023-2028. (Contributed as Co-PI during the first year of the project, 2023-2024).
  • (PI) IEEE Young Professional Travel Award for IEEE SMC Conference 2023, $500.

 Internal Awarded Grants:

  • (PI) The Summer of AI program, " Pre-Advising Conversational AI chatbot for Electrical and Electronic Engineering Students (PAC-AI-EEE) ", National Institute on AI in Society (NIAIS), Sacramento State, Summer 2024. 
  • (PI) Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Faculty Award Program, " Implementation of a Cyber Attack Analysis, Detection, and Mitigation for Multi-Robot Collaboration", Sacramento State,  2024-2025, $10,000.
  • (PI) Research Enhanced Support Grant (RESG) program, " Advanced Artificial Intelligence-based Autonomous Control for Industrial and Robotic Applications ", Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.
  • (PI) Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions (DHSI) Career Mini-Grant, " Providing Student Access to Advanced Industrial Control System Equipment", (Beckhoff PLC training Station), Sacramento State, 2024, $5,000.
  • (PI) Research and Creative Activity (RCA) Faculty Award Program, " Implementation of a Human-Multi Robot Collaboration via Virtual Reality (VR)", Sacramento State,  2023-2024, $10,000.
  • (PI) Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions (DHSI) Career Mini-Grant, " Improving Student's Knowledge in Robotics by Adopting Autonomous Ground Robot ", Sacramento State, 2023, $10,000.
  • (PI) Advancing Early Career Faculty Research and Scholarship (ADVANCE) program, funded by the Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development, Sacramento State, 2023, $5,000.
  • (PI) Faculty Development Grant, "Robotic Training Kit for CET and EET Students ", Pennwest-California, 2022, $1,000.
PI: Principal Investigator, Co-PI: Co-Principal Investigator

Student Projects:

  • Juan Jose Goiz-Maya received the 2023/24 ECS Research Assistantship Program Award for the " Implementation of Human and Mobile Robot Interaction using Virtual Reality" project, $3,600, 2024-2025.
  • Sponsored Project, Computer Science Senior Project Team Bit Busters,  " Implementation of  an Nvidia Jetson Nano-based Autonomous Car ", Spring 2024-Fall 2024.
  • Simran Parkash Jagtap received the 2023/24 ECS Research Assistantship Program Award for the " Face Recognition Attendance System " project, $3,600, 2023-2024. 

Outreach Activities:

  • Esparto Elementary Schools Career Technical Education Night, April 17, 2024. 

Available Research Positions: