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2023 Floating Dragon - New Mexico
HRVIP: Human/Robotics/Vehicle Integration & Performance Laboratory
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Lab All-Hands (Winter 2023)
Sarah O'Meara with Robot Arm
Tony with Drone
Dr. George Pantalos visits HRVIP
Natasha Evans
Preston Vanderpan with UC Davis flag in Zero-G
Abhay, Cordell, Kylie performing CubeSat fit check at JSC
Adam and Billy testing in theater
Adam Zufall and Billy Mazotti work onstage at the Main Theatre in Wright Hall to test computer vision handrail detection in a space-like lighting environment
Andrew working on hardware

About HRVIP

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The purpose of the Human/Robotics/Vehicle Integration and Performance Laboratory (HRVIP Lab) is to conduct broadly interdisciplinary research to keep humans alive in extreme and highly hazardous environments, such as spaceflight, aircraft emergencies, and robotic surgery.

Our approach is to enhance traditional design capabilities for human-involved engineering systems by incorporating knowledge of human understanding (cognitive psychology) and human brain function (neuroscience). The result is an intensively cross-disciplinary research center at UC Davis that develops fundamental knowledge, technical innovation, and validated simulations to enhance human performance in highly-hazardous environments, with significant improvements in safety – in other words, to keep people alive where both the risk and rewards are very high.

HRVIP in the News

 

Angel Rodas

Undergraduates complete intensive summer research scholars’ programs

Angel Rodas, a rising senior and CAMP scholar, conducted research in the Human, Robotics, Vehicle Integration and Performance Laboratory at UC Davis.
https://ue.ucdavis.edu/news/undergraduates-complete-intensive-summer-research-scholars-programs

Adam Zufall

Adam Zufall Awarded COE Teaching Assistant Excellence Award

Congratulations to Adam on being awarded the COE Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for his exceptional work as a TA! https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/2023-teaching-excellence-awards

SOAR Program

STEM Outreach Program Helps Middle School Students SOAR

Read about HRVIP's SOAR Program! https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/SOAR-program-student-outreach

Kylie with floating CubeSat - Flight Campaign 3

Kylie Cooper Featured by College of Engineering for International Women's Day 2023

Read about Kylie in the feature article! https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/graduate-student-spotlight-kylie-cooper

Kelden and Adam testing HERMES

HRVIP Team Selected as Finalist for New NASA Balloon Challenge

Read more in the College of Engineering's article! https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/student-team-nasa-balloon-challenge

Zero-G Flight Campaign 2 Floaters

HRVIP demonstrates novel technologies in second reduced-gravity parabolic flight campaign

Read more in UC Davis Magazine's feature article! https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/students-fly-run-experiments-zero-gravity

Natasha Evans

HRVIP Research

Learn more about HRVIP's research

New HRVIP Members

Brian Huo resize

 

Brian Huo

Brian is researching haptic feedback for augmenting manual control of robotic tools.

Dr. Campanile

Dr. Valentina Campanelli

Valentina is a biomedical engineer with a PhD in Imaging that has worked for several years in the surgical robotics industry. She is now pursuing her research interest in robotics and space science at HRVIP.

Angel Rodas

Angel Rodas

Angel is working on haptics feedback for manual robotic control.

Karen Mae

Karen Mae Baldonado

Karen is interested in mission design, Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL), human spaceflight, and astrodynamics.

Shannon Lackey

Shannon Lackey

Shannon is currently pursing a M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis with a focus on Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS).

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HRVIP Values

We strive to make a best effort to achieve our shared community values, which include the highest achievable standards of:

  • Scientific integrity
  • Reduction of data bias due to gender imbalance
  • Gender bias awareness

When conducting experiments to create scientific insight, we recognize that we have a societal and individual responsibility to continually educate ourselves about potential data biases related to subject gender or gender identity.

Accordingly, during our research investigations, the UC Davis HRVIP Lab will expend all reasonable efforts to recruit a mix of subjects with an equal number (to within 5% of the total selected subject pool) of subjects who report a gender identity of “female” or “male”. Subjects that do not self-identify as “female” or “male” shall be categorized in the gender identity according to CDC guidelines[1] or that they prefer. The reporting of subject demographics will include the breakdown by gender identity.

For investigations that are not able to meet the target gender identity balance, HRVIP researchers shall describe in reports and publications the rationale for accepting a non-equal gender identity mix of subject participants.


[1] https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/clinicians/transforming-health/health-care-providers/collecting-sexual-orientation.html

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