The University of Maine Homeland Security Lab - The University of Maine Homeland Security Lab is an inter-disciplinary group that works closely with groups having an interest in developing homeland security. The University of Maine Homeland Security Lab is dedicated to carrying out research that can help anticipate and protect against terrorist attacks and other disasters. It is also interested in the problems of the first responder.

MaineSAIL - Maine Software Agents and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Includes the Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Research Group and the Software Agents Research Group

Robotics Language Research Group - Studying robotics programming languages, primarily for the LEGO programmable brick

CoDA Project - Cooperative distributed problem solving for intelligent multiagent systems, including autonomous oceanographic sampling networks (AOSNs). Research foci: autonomous organization/reorganization, task assignment, problem-solving protocols. (Funding: Office of Naval Research.)

Orca Project - Intelligent mission-level control of real physical agents, in particular autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Research foci: context-sensitive reasoning, adaptive problem solving, unanticipated event handling, case- and schema-based reasoning. (Funding: NSF, ONR.)

Interagent communication - Research on communication between artificial and natural agents, including natural language processing. Research foci: determining what to say during problem solving, discourse-level conversational control, low-bandwidth communication. (Funding: NSF.)

Multimodal interfaces - Joint project with the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering focused on understanding multimodal communication, in particular text and graphical input in the domain of an interface to a graphical information system (GIS). Research foci: understanding reference, context-sensitive reasoning. (Funding: NSF.)

Unexploded ordnance clearing - Research on using multiple small land robots to find and clear mines and unexploded ordnance from a region. Research foci: planning using naturally-bounded areas, cooperative multiagent systems.

Modeling complex biological systems - Joint project with researchers at UNH and Spring Hill College focusing on modeling community succession on cleared surfaces in the ocean. Research foci: predator-prey (nudibranch-hydroid) interaction modeling, larval settling, community succession.