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Mitchell tests our Virtual Reality environment with a virtual drone flying right in front of him!

Professor Naira Hovakimyan has been named the next W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor by the Mechanical Science and Engineering department.

ASPIRE NSF grant awarded to Prof. Hovakimyan was featured on the news!

Prof. Hovakimyan has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop co-robots for elderly citizen care.

“The award recognizes Hovakimyan’s significant contributions to mathematical control theory and its application in safety-critical systems.”

SBIR Phase 1 grant from NSF was awarded to ACRL together with Intelinair and Illinois Laboratory for Agricultural Remote Sensing.

Javier Puig Navarro and Bilal Mehdi have been featured on NASA’s Autonomy Incubator blog!

Working with the Illinois Fire Service Institute, Prof. Hovakimyan’s group performed flight tests last week to find out how Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technologies can help firefighters. It is expected that an integrated UAV technology will reduce the time of the mission, number of required resources (including personnel), and will reduce firefighters risk by preventing man […]

“Out of Cold War’s end, Hovakimyan has emerged as a leading voice in flight control safety’

Congratulations to Thiago Marinho! As PI Thiago was awarded the Focal Point Grant for the NICER Robotics Project by the Graduate College of Engineering.