Joseph Moore

Dr. Joseph Moore is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University and the director of the Agile and Intelligent Robotics (AIRO) Laboratory. He is a member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), and holds a Bridging Faculty appointment in the Research and Exploratory Development Department (REDD) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics laboratory (JHU/APL). Dr. Moore’s research explores methods at the intersection of computational control, computational physics, and machine learning to enable robust, highly-agile robotic systems that can operate in complex, real-world environments.

Before joining JHU ME full-time, he was the Robotics Group Chief Scientist at JHU/APL, where he led research on control and planning strategies for hybrid unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicles, heterogeneous multi-robot teams, and aerobatic fixed-wing vehicles. Dr. Moore has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for both Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) programs that have developed flight controllers for aggressive post-stall maneuvering with fixed-wing aerial vehicles to enable precision landing and high-speed navigation in constrained environments. He has also served as PI for Army Research Lab (ARL) programs which seek to enable coordination of multi-robot teams in complex environments and terrains.