Electrical Engineering proposal wins $2.6 million NSF grant

NSF received 700 proposals and gave 31 awards; the second largest award in 1999 went to Prof. A. Stephen Morse, Electrical Engineering, and Prof. Peter Belhumeur, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

The Morse/Belhumeur team comprises experts in computer vision, control systems, robotics, and theorical/experimental marine biology working at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and the zoology deparment of the University of Washington, Seattle. The cross-disciplinary team will study how schools of fish coordinate their collective motion and how schools of small autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV's) might be designed to move in a coordinated manner. The development of a Yale test facility for the latter is underway.

More on Prof. Morse's research; More on Prof. Belhumeur's research