Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

This research fellowship involves conducting fundamental and applied research in the field of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML). The fellowship position is based at the United States Military Academy's Robotics Research Center in West Point, New York. Research areas include design and development of robotic prototype systems, multi-agent systems in communications-limited environments, optimization and simulation of robot behaviors, sensor integration and fusion for distributed SLAM, machine perception for object detection and tracking, test and evaluation of robotic systems, development of tactics for employing RAS in military formations, large language models with emergent reasoning capabilities, modeling hierarchical contextual knowledge for complex multi-modal scene understanding, neuro-symbolic architectures for representation and learning, and biologically-inspired metacognitive AI paradigms such as hyperdimensional computing. The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. ORAU Fellows at USMA-RRC conduct applied research and engineering on projects aligned with the Army's and DoD's modernization priorities while contributing to the broader scientific community, gaining significant practical exposure on aerial, ground, and aquatic robots.