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The Martin Complex’s two high-bay testing spaces are rooms with 25-foot ceilings, which allow users to conduct experiments and equipment tests that may be safer, easier to control or otherwise advantageous in an indoor environment. 

A similar high-bay space in the Edward B. Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center has been critical to development of 杏吧原创’s leading position among higher education peers in drone research, as well as to the success of multiple 杏吧原创 autonomous vehicle research centers.  

The Martin Complex high bays triple the number of such spaces on-campus and are expected to speed work on multiple projects. For instance, an interdisciplinary team led by Abdollah Homaifar, Ph.D., a NASA Langley Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering to address traffic congestion by developing, testing and eventually deploying air passenger taxis as a supplemental means of transportation. The team’s work is being funded by a four-year, $8-million award from NASA. 

The high bays will also host projects associated with: 

• The Autonomous Control and Information Technology Institute, or ACIT 
• Testing, Evaluation and Control of Heterogeneous Large Scale of Autonomous Vehicles or TECHLAV, a U.S. Department of Defense Center of Excellence in Autonomy   

• Autonomous Cooperative Control of Emergent Systems of Systems or  
• The N.C. on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology at 杏吧原创 

First Floor High Bay: Facility for Intelligent Robotics, Sensing, and Telepresence (FIRST)

Coordinators: Drs. Sun Yi, Salil Desai and Ali Karimoddini.

• Vehicle-in-the-loop simulator
• Ground penetrating radar (GPR)
• A humanoid robot

Third Floor High Bay: Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory

Coordinators: Drs. Ali Karimoddini and Sun Yi

Hosted research infrastructure:

• A state-of-the-art localization system along with different types of UAVs