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Here at The Grainger College of Engineering, we have researchers, centers, facilities and academic programs pushing the limits and realizing our dreams of autonomy, efficiency and <strong>safety</strong> a reality – in the lab, in our skies and on our roads, bridges, rails and waters.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w110 ghost-box " id="tile39649" data-tileid="39649" > <div class="wrapper py-4"> <div class="lower maxwidth1140 " id="lower39649"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md column1 " > <h2>News</h2> <div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-2 row-cols-lg-4"><div class="col mb-4" data-items="4" data-bookid="299"> <div class="card news white-box"> <div class="card-img-top-container"> <div class="card-img-top" style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=96955&s=500&h=375);"></div> </div> <div class="card-body"> <p class="title"><a href="https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/FAA-POETS-grant">POETS testbed to be expanded under FAA low-emission aviation technologies grant</a></p> <p class="publication hide-empty" data-value=""></p> <ul class="pipe-list mt-3 mb-0"> <li class="parent"><a href="https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories">Engineering News</a></li> <li class="date">September 17, 2024</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="col mb-4" data-items="4" data-bookid="1440"> <div class="card news white-box"> <div class="card-img-top-container"> <div class="card-img-top" style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=94884&s=500&h=375);"></div> </div> <div class="card-body"> <p class="title"><a href="https://www.wcia.com/news/u-of-is-idot-partnership-continues-with-48-million-agreement-towards-sustainability/">U of I鈥檚 IDOT partnership continues with $48 million agreement towards sustainability</a></p> <p class="publication hide-empty" data-value="4">WCIA</p> <ul class="pipe-list mt-3 mb-0"> <li class="parent"><a href="https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/media-mentions">Media Mentions</a></li> <li class="date">August 12, 2024</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="col mb-4" data-items="4" data-bookid="299"> <div class="card news white-box"> <div class="card-img-top-container"> <div class="card-img-top" style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=94992&s=500&h=375);"></div> </div> <div class="card-body"> <p class="title"><a href="https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/ansell-wang-NAE">Ansell and Wang selected to participate in NAE 2024 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium</a></p> <p class="publication hide-empty" data-value=""></p> <ul class="pipe-list mt-3 mb-0"> <li class="parent"><a href="https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories">Engineering News</a></li> <li class="date">July 22, 2024</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="col mb-4" data-items="4" data-bookid="299"> <div class="card news white-box"> <div class="card-img-top-container"> <div class="card-img-top" style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=94884&s=500&h=375);"></div> </div> <div class="card-body"> <p class="title"><a href="https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/IDOT-2024">ICT, IDOT sign $48M agreement to transform transportation system</a></p> <p class="publication hide-empty" data-value=""></p> <ul class="pipe-list mt-3 mb-0"> <li class="parent"><a href="https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories">Engineering News</a></li> <li class="date">July 15, 2024</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w110 charcoal-box jarallax" id="tile43383" data-tileid="43383" style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=95689&s=0);" data-sm-jarallax-video="" data-fancy-caption="" data-speed=""> <div class="wrapper darkify py-6"> <div class="lower text-center maxwidth900 py-5" id="lower43383"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md column1 " > <p> </p> <p><em class="fab fa-youtube fa-3x" aria-hidden="true"></em></p> <h2><a data-fancybox="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BohWp1lN5Po" class="stretched-link">Grainger engineers are designing the transportation systems of tomorrow.</a></h2> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w110 white-box " id="tile39650" data-tileid="39650" > <div class="wrapper py-5"> <div class="lower maxwidth1140 " id="lower39650"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"><h2>Partners and Facilities</h2> <p class="intro">Illinois researchers are hard at work on the future of autonomy, and forging academic and industry partnerships. The Grainger College of Engineering and its facilities are dedicated to supporting and enabling the breakthroughs born from their projects. </p></div> <div class="col-md column1 " > <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_39650_7" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_39650_7">Center for Autonomous Vehicles in Air Transportation Engineering</a></p> <div id="option_39650_7" class="collapse"> <p><a href="https://autonomy.illinois.edu/"><strong>AVIATE</strong></a> is a multi-disciplinary consortium of researchers, scientists, and engineers from a variety of universities and industry groups. The team's mission is to develop a robust and resilient autonomy framework with principled and verifiable architectures to deal with uncertainties and off-nominal situations to enable safe and efficient advanced air mobility.</p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_39650_1" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_39650_1">Center for Autonomy</a></p> <div id="option_39650_1" class="collapse"> <p><a href="https://autonomy.illinois.edu/"><strong>The Center for Autonomy</strong></a> enables high-impact research and develops new educational programs for students and professionals. The Center plays an important role in designing innovative systems that can function autonomously, or without human intervention, in a safe and reliable way.</p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_39650_2" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_39650_2">I-ACT: Illinois Autonomous and Connected Track</a></p> <div id="option_39650_2" class="collapse"> <p><strong><a href="https://ict.illinois.edu/i-act">I-ACT</a> </strong>is a real-world testbed for applications in transportation that will offer a range of settings and environments under which to test emerging technologies for several modes of transportation. </p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_39650_3" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_39650_3">Illinois Center for Transportation</a></p> <div id="option_39650_3" class="collapse"> <p><a href="https://ict.illinois.edu/"><strong>ICT</strong></a> steers the development and implementation of cost-effective mobility technologies, improves safety and reliability, reduces congestion and minimizes environmental impacts while returning taxpayers’ dollars.</p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#panel_39650_4" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="panel_39650_4" data-target="#panel_39650_4">Intelligent Robotics Lab</a></p> <div id="panel_39650_4" class="collapse"> <p>The<strong> <a href="https://robotics.illinois.edu/">Illinois Robotics Group</a></strong> is an interdisciplinary group that coordinates and grows robotics research, education and facilities across campus. Supported by the Center for Autonomy in the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), the group specializes in bringing engineering, computing and design principles to life in intelligent machines.</p> <p>IRL research spans a diverse range of topics, including robot learning, motion planning, computer vision, mechatronics, verification, agricultural robotics, legged robots, soft robots and more.</p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#panel_39650_5" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="panel_39650_5" data-target="#panel_39650_5">Rail Transportation and Engineering Center</a></p> <div id="panel_39650_5" class="collapse"> <p><strong><a href="https://railtec.illinois.edu/">RailTEC</a> </strong>is a global leader in practical and theoretical research advancing the field in a broad range of important and timely railroad and rail transit engineering and transportation topics.</p> <p>Advanced research investigations are underway in railway safety, systems and infrastructure, to address topics essential to maintaining the safety, efficiency, reliability sustainability and resiliency of railroad freight and passenger transportation.</p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#panel_39650_6" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="panel_39650_6" data-target="#panel_39650_6">Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center</a></p> <div id="panel_39650_6" class="collapse"> <p><a href="https://trans-ipic.illinois.edu/"><strong>Trans-IPIC</strong></a> is a Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) working to develop solutions for transportation infrastructure challenges by innovating precast concrete-related technologies that are durable, climate-adaptable, safe and economic.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md column2 " style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=90590&s=0);" data-fancy-caption="<p>Railroad lines in Chicago, Illinois.</p><p>Photo Credit: <em>L. 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Grainger Engineering researchers focus on projects like <strong>vehicular safety networks</strong> and C2E2 nonlinear hybrid verification engines to ensure safety by leveraging <strong>advanced techniques like AI</strong>.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Learn more about safety projects like <a href="https://mitras.ece.illinois.edu/index.html">DryVR</a> and <a href="https://naira.mechse.illinois.edu/attack-resilient-simplex-arsimplex-architecture-for-autopilot-system/">ARSimplex</a>.</p> </div> <div class="col-12"></div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w110 " id="tile39652" data-tileid="39652" > <div class="wrapper py-3"> <div class="lower maxwidth1140 sm-colorder-reverse" id="lower39652"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md column1 minheight350 " style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=42396&s=0);" data-fancy-caption="<p>Members of the EarthSense Agricultural Intelligence team demonstrate how they use their autonomous robots in cornfields in rural St. Joseph.</p><p>Photo Credit: <em>Heather Coit</em></p>"></div> <div class="col-md column2 pt-3 pb-5 py-md-5 col-md-7 px-md-5 mx-md-4 "> <h3>Systems and Algorithms</h3> <p>Illinois engineers have dedicated their work to researching algorithms for the advancement of autonomous systems to <strong>mitigate error</strong> where human lives are involved. Human-centered autonomy and cooperative trajectory generation contribute towards the development of intelligent vehicles, robots and <strong>communications between humans and machines</strong>. </p> <p>Learn more about projects in this area from the <a href="http://daslab.illinois.edu/">Distributed Autonomous Systems Lab</a> and the <a href="https://iconresearchlab.web.illinois.edu/">ICON lab</a>. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w100 " id="tile39697" data-tileid="39697" > <div class="wrapper py-3"> <div class="lower maxwidth1140 " id="lower39697"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md column1 minheight350 " style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=90589&s=0);" data-fancy-caption="<p>In the future, drones carrying packages could descend on a ride-sharing vehicle and magnetically dock a package to the roof of the vehicle (Photo Credit: iStock, by Getty Images)</p>"></div> <div class="col-md column2 pt-3 pb-5 py-md-5 col-md-7 px-md-5 mx-md-3 "> <h3 style="text-align: left;">Vision and Monitoring</h3> <p style="text-align: left;">Our researchers are innovating autonomous systems that <strong>observe and analyze </strong>the world around them. 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