Funding award:
DOE National Energy Technology Lab (DOE NETL), Co-Principal Investigator, “A Lizard-inspired Tube Inspector (LTI) Robot”, $400,000 total (50% Recognition: $200,000).
The ASU DoD Seed Program, Principal Investigator, “Octopus-inspired Decentralized Control Strategies for Highly Deformable Soft Robots”, $40,000 total (50% Recognition: $20,000).
The Kern Family Foundation, Principal Investigator, “Bio-inspired ideas for addressing semi-conductor industry needs’, $12,000 total (100% Recognition).
The Origins Project at ASU, Principal Investigator, “Robotic mobility on asteroids”, $2,500 total (100% Recognition).
Funding proposals in review:
NSF Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) program, Co-Principal Investigator, “CPS: Frontier: A decentralized Estimation and Control Framework for Networks of Flexible Sensors and Actuators in Soft Robots”, $2,015,874 total (25% Recognition: $500,000, estimated).
NSF Signals in the Soil (SitS) program, Co-Principal Investigator, “EAGER SitS: Active Self-Boring Robots that Enable Next Generation Dynamic Underground Wireless Sensing Networks: Fusion of Fast Proto-typing, Modeling, and Learning”, $300,000 total (33% Recognition: $100,000, estimated).
Dr. Marvi received “Origins Project Faculty Research Award” from The Origins Project at ASU.
June 2018: Dr. Marvi was invited to give a talk at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Atlanta, GA.
June 2018: Dr. Marvi was invited to give a talk at National Congress for Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Symposium on Mechanics in Biology, Chicago, IL.
March 2018: Dr. Marvi was invited to give a talk at New Mexico State University, College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series, Las Cruces, NM.
