Carry out research in the area of applied robotics for use in extreme environments, particularly in the defense, space, nuclear, and oil and gas industries. Research areas of particular interest include autonomy, human-machine interfaces, mobile manipulation, control, and hardware/sensor integration. The high-level goals focus on advancing the systems autonomous capabilities in uncertain environments to reduce the burden on the operator and improve task efficiency and safe operation.Serve as co-principal investigator or senior research personnel to obtain research funding from federal agencies and industry.Help maintain laboratory equipment and groups software repositories.Supervise and educate graduate students and postdoctoral researchers as well as support publication efforts related to the programs research.