James Montoya

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | NMT · Department of Mechanical Engineering

Subterranean openings, including mines, present a unique and challenging environment for robots and autonomous exploration systems. Autonomous robots that are created today will be deployed in harsh and unexplored landscapes that humanity is increasingly encountering in its scientific and technological endeavors. Terrestrial and extraterrestrial en...

As UAV usage becomes more and more common, methods to attack UAVs and save UAVs from attack become more and more necessary. Predator-prey interactions in nature can be studied, and the predator and anti-predator mechanisms that animals use can be categorized. From the various mechanisms used in nature, several conceptual predator and anti-predator...

View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-4035.vid As the colonization of Mars becomes more of a reality, one of the major questions that has yet to be fully solved is where humans would work, sleep, and live. Martian exploration would have to contend with the harsh Martian environment. Bioinspiration, the study of using natural pheno...

View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-3726.vid Earth scientists spend a significant amount of time traversing and inspecting potential research sites to find suitable and accessible outcroppings or areas to conduct the desired procedure, such as setting up sensor packages. Some selected regions can be challenging to access, danger...