Dr. Eric M. Schwartz's Home Page

Dr. Eric M. Schwartz (Bio)

Director, Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL) at the University of Florida (UF)
Master Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at UF
Director, NaviGator AMS: Autonomous Maritime System Project
Director, SubjuGator Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Project
[Inactive] Director, PropaGator Autonomous (water) Surface Vehicle (ASV) Project
[Inactive] Director, CongreGators Autonomous Heterogeneous Swarm Project
(of ground and air vehicles)
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Intelligen Machines and Robotics (CIMAR) in Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at UF
Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at UF

Office: MALA 3110, (352) 392-2541
[MALA = Malachowsky Hall, UF Building 1024]
Lab: MALA 3001
Fax: Available upon request
ECE Dept. Office: MALA 5000, (352) 392-0911
Email: ems@ufl.edu

UF Campus/Mailing Address:
Dr. Eric M. Schwartz 1889 Museum Rd Malachowsky Hall #3110 University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611

Physical UF Campus Address:

MALA 3110 (Malachowsky Hall, UF Building 1024)

Office Hours on Zoom (for 13 Jan - 25 Apr 2025);

Wed: 12:50-1:40pm; Fri: 1:55-2:45pm

Always by email (ems at ufl edu)

When my MALA 3110 office door is open and I'm not busy

My Spring 2025 schedule

My spring 2025 semester teaching load and major activities:

EEL 3701: Digital Logic and Computer Systems (2 sections)
EEL 4744: Microprocessor Applications (1 section)
I'm the Director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL).
I'm a Faculty Member of the Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics (CIMAR).
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the NaviGator AMS (Autonomous Maritime System) team, a first time entrant int the 2016 Maritime RobotX Challenge. We won world championship in December 2016!
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the three-time world champion autonomous submarine, SubjuGator, winner of each of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 AUVSI Foundation and ONR's 8th, 9th and 10th International RoboSub Competition . We came in second place in 2012, 2013, and 2014. We have earned 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in 11 of the 27 years of this international competition.
I'm the Faculty Advisor for a one-time world champion autonomous boat, PropaGator, winner of the 2013 AUVSI Foundation and ONR's 6th International RoboBoat Competition , as first year participants. We earned second place in 2014.
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the IEEE SoutheastCon Hardware (Robot) Competition Team (at UF). .
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the IEEE Gainesville Section Student Branch (at UF).
I'm the Chair (and past Treasurer and Secretary) of the Gainesville section of IEEE.
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the InstiGator Robot Lawnmower Teams (at UF) for the ION Robotic Lawn Mower Competition. We were the 2011 static competition champion. The competition is now inactive.
I'm a past and founding Faculty Advisor for the Gator Robotics Club (at UF)
I'm am the past and founding Faculty Advisor for the NASA Lunabotics/NASABotics Robot Teams (at UF), 2011-2014.
I'm a member of the UF's Team Gator Nation , a semifinalist in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle competition with our vehicle, the Urban NaviGator .

Recent Awards:

2023-2024 HWCOE Undergraduate Faculty Advisor/Mentor of the Year Award. On April 29th, 2024.
2022-2023 Faculty of the Year, awarded by students of the UF ECE Department.
2012-2013 "University of Florida IEEE and HKN Teacher of the Year"
2011 "Student Involvement Award for Advisor of the Year" for my work with IEEE and other students at UF. This is one of a number of student-selected awards called a Chompy which are meant to "recognize individuals for their tremendous contributions to the University of Florida and the Gainesville community."
2010-2011 IEEE Southeast Region Outstanding Branch Counselor. This award “Recognizes the outstanding Branch Counselor or Chapter Advisor for contributions to the success of their IEEE Student Branch or Chapter.”
2002-2003 UF Teacher of the Year (Provost's announcemnent)
2002-2003 UF's College of Engineering Teacher of the Year. (original link unavailable)
Anderson/CLAS Scholar Faculty Honoree 2000-2005, 2012

Some Publications:

Kevin J. Phillipson, Michael G. Rywalt, Baibhab Chatterjee, Eric M. Schwartz, Greg Stitt, “Novel Toolset for Efficient Hardwired Micro-Op Translation in Embedded Microarchitectures,” IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, Vol 16:4, December 2024, pp 373-376.
Z. Bell, J. Nezvadovitz, A. Parikh, E. Schwartz, and W. E. Dixon, “Global Exponential Tracking Control for an Autonomous Surface Vessel: An Integral Concurrent Learning Approach,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 362-370 (2020).
Andrew C. Gray, Max Anderton, Carl D. Crane, Eric M. Schwartz, “Design, construction, and implementation of an inexpensive underwater passive SONAR,” Applied Acoustics, Vol 148, May 2019, pp 251-263.
Patrick Walters, Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Forrest Voight, Eric Schwartz, Warren Dixon, "Online Approximate Optimal Station Keeping of a Marine Craft in the Presence of a Current." IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol 30, No 2, April 2018.
Andrew C. Gray, Eric Schwartz, "The NaviGator Autonomous Maritime System," Naval Engineers Journal, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 75-88, September 2017.
Nic Fischer, Devin Hughes, Patrick Walters, Eric Schwartz, Warren Dixon, "Nonlinear RISE-based Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle." IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), Vol 30, No 4, pp. 845-852, August 2014.
Carl Crane, David Armstrong, Antonio Arroyo, Antoin Baker, Doug Dankel, Greg Garcia, Nicholas Johnson, Jaesang Lee, Shannon Ridgeway, Eric Schwartz, Eric Thorn, Steve Velat, and Ji Hyun Yoon, "Development of the NaviGator for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge," Experience from the DARPA Urban Challenge, Springer-Verlag, London, England, 2012, pp. 67-90.
Zohra Manseur, Eric Schwartz, Rashid Manseur, Keith Doty, “A Computational Algebra for Numbers with Physical Units.” International Journal of Computing and Mathematical Applications, Vol. 5, No. 1, January-June 2011, pp. 21-34.
Carl Crane, David Armstrong, Antonio Arroyo, Antoin Baker, Doug Dankel, Greg Garcia, Nicholas Johnson, Jaesang Lee, Shannon Ridgeway, Eric Schwartz, Eric Thorn, Steve Velat, Ji Hyun Yoon, and John Washburn, “Team Gator Nation: Autonomous Navigation Technologies Developed to Address the Requirements of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge,” submitted to AIAA Journal of Computing, Information, and Communication on September 7, 2007.
Hussain Sultan, and Eric M. Schwartz (mentor) 2007. “Robot Arm Manipulator Control for SG5-UT.” Journal for Undergraduate Research, Volume 9, Issue 2, Nov/Dec 2007.
Choi, TaeHoon, and Nechyba, Michael, and Schwartz, Eric, and Arroyo, Antonio , 2003. "Creation and Analysis of a Scenario Based Universal Sensory Driver Layer with Real time Fault Tolerant Properties." IROS 2003: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 27 - 31, 2003.
Schwartz, Eric, and Manseur, Rachid, and Doty, Keith, 2003. "Non Commensurate Manipulator Jacobian." Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference of Robotics and Applications, Salzburg, Austria, June 25-27, 2003.
Schwartz, Eric M., and Manseur, Rachid, and Doty, Keith L., 2002. "Noncommensurate Systems in Robotics." International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Volume 17, Issue 2, pages 86-92, 2002.
Schwartz, Eric M., 1995. Algebraic Properties of Noncommensurate Systems and their Applications in Robotics. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Doty, Keith L., Melchiorri, C., Schwartz, Eric M., and Bonitvento, C., "Robot Manipulability." IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, Volume 11, Issue 3, pages 462-468, June 1995.
Other conference publications

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