Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute (AVMI) | Worcester Polytechnic Institute

The Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute (AVMI) is a research and development (R&D) and technical services organization to advance methods in modeling and simulation, design and control, hybrid testing and experimentation of autonomous/unmanned and manned vehicles for maneuver, terrain mobility, energy efficiency, and active survivability in severe terrain and adversarial environments.

AVMI performs conceptual and engineering prototyping and design of vehicle systems, and academic and professional advancement courses at WPI, national, and international levels.

By conducting its R&D, AVMI assists the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center (DECOM GVSC) in coordinating efforts between other government research agencies and NATO, universities, and industry.

AVMI extends its work to other systems, such as multi-drive wheel road and off-road automobiles and trucks, planet rovers, farm tractors, construction and mining equipment, and forestry machinery.

July 30, 2024

Off-Road Brawn with AI Brains

The Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute develops technology that will keep tomorrow’s off-road vehicles rolling along.

Taras Borovets presenting at the NATO project technical meeting and seminar, Politecnico di Milano, April 11-13, 2018

December 27, 2023

PhD Dissertation Defense

Taras Borovets defended his PhD thesis titled “Synthesis and Analysis of Intelligent Observers of the State Vector Coordinates of Motion Control Systems of an Electric Vehicle” at Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine,

Taras was co-advised by Andriy Lozynskyy, ScD, PhD, Professor and Director of the Energetics and Control Systems Institute, Lviv Polytechnic National University, and Vladimir Vantsevich, ScD, PhD, Professor and co-Director of the Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Taras’ PhD work was supported by Project G5176 “Agile Tyre Mobility for Severe Terrain Environments” funded by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Program. Prof. Vantsevich served as the NATO Country Project Director. Dr. Lyubomyr Demkiv, Lviv Polytechnic National University served as the Partner Country Project Director.

October 18, 2023

AUVSI & ASME Launch Collaboration

Dr. Vladimir Vantsevich, JAVS editor-in-chief and AVMI co-director

Mary Grace Stefanchik, ASME senior director

The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International Journal of Autonomous Vehicle and Systems

May 23, 2023

ISTVS Terrabite with Vladimir V. Vantsevich and David J. Gorsich

Dr. Vladimir Vantsevich, AVMI co-Director

Dr. David Gorsich, Chief Scientist, US Army DEVCOM GVSC.

Autonomous Terrain Mobility Performance Optimization: Fundamentals for Unmanned Ground Vehicles

March 20, 2023

GVMSA Member

AVMI becomes the key member of new estabilished Ground Vehicle Modeling & Simulation Alliance created by US Army Ground Vehilce Systems Center

December 7, 2022

AVMI Launch in November 2022

Prof. Vantsevich and Prof. Moradi lanch Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute at WPI

Research Scientist Positions

In support of the research and development (R&D) contract from the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), the Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute (AVMI) https://www.wpi.edu/research/centers/avmi at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) https://www.wpi.edu/ in Massachusetts offers three Research Scientist positions.

In this R&D program, AVMI will develop innovative solutions in digital engineering (DE) with its implementation in newly built laboratories. These capabilities offer a DE ecosystem/infrastructure and integrative methods, processes, and practices to conduct DE and support novel automated approaches for Human-Machine Integrated Formations (HMIF) modeling and simulation, development, design, testing and evaluation, and for the defense training and acquisition. Such approach provides the necessary DE components for AVMI as a digital & hardware artifact-based ecosystem of multiple X-realities, including real, virtual, and mixed realities.

The successful candidates will have an exceptional opportunity to build their professional careers and collaborate with AVMI researchers, WPI faculty and students from multiple departments, and private industries – working together and complementing each other on designing and establishing unique research and engineering laboratory facility on autonomous vehicles and HMIFs.

Funded Research Position

A Master’s student or an Undergraduate student who graduates in May 2025 is currently in search as a candidate to apply for the DOD SMART Scholarship to support his/her PhD (combined MA and PhD). This position relates to the ongoing research work with the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center

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