On July 12 2019, our lab and CSL participated to at the next generation outreach event at Montessori School in Champaign, IL. Students were able to get hands on the the ground robot (Jackal UGV) and the UAV (Intel drone) proving them with an introduction into the robotics.

Congratulations to Thiago! He defended his PhD final exam successfully!

Alex held a wonderful picnic & diaper party, and we had a great time on Helena’s baby shower party.

Congratulations to Donglei! He defended his PhD final exam successfully! He will go back to China after graduation.

The Paper ‘Proximity Queries for Absolutely Continuous Parametric Curves’ is accepted in RSS. The paper and the code can be downloaded through arXiv and github. Curve – Convex PolygonCurve – Curve   CurveProximityQueries implements methods to compute the Closest Points Minimum Distance Tolerance Verification Collision Detection between an absolutely continuous parametric curve and another object, or […]

Today we had a great discussion with Evangelos A. Theodorou. His research interests span the areas of stochastic optimal control, robotics, machine learning, control for autonomy in self-driving cars, aerospace systems, autonomy, and robotics.       Pictures: Discussion about Gaussian process for machine learning     Picture: “Papered” sweater    

Congratulations to Hyung-Jin! He defended his thesis “Path Planning and Control of Flying Robots with Account of Human’s Safety Perception” successfully! He will join MIT Media Lab  as a post-doc researcher.

Javier Puig-Navarro was recently recognized as the recipient of the Aerospace Engineering Alumni Advisory Board Fellowship.

Hyung-Jin Yoon was recently recognized as an outstanding reviewer for the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. He has served as a reviewer for the journal for about three years, and also reviews for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and the Journal of the Franklin […]

Click here to read the news post from MechSE. Despite the cold weather of the week, the group of co-PIs of NSF NRI award #1830639 SYNDROME convened on UIUC campus on 02/01 for the kickoff meeting as planned. Co-PI Pavone from Stanford could not join the meeting in-person because of unfavorable weather conditions and joined […]