Congratulations! We are excited to learn that NASA selected our project, “Congestion Aware Path Planning for Optimal [Unmanned Aircraft System] UAS Traffic Management,” for USRC! Link to the news: https://mechse.illinois.edu/news/46992  

We are excited to learn that NASA selected our proposal “Robust Resilient Autonomy for Advanced Air Mobility” for their 5th round of ULI funding: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-four-university-teams-for-aviation-projects/. We have partnered with Chuchu Fan from MIT, Evangelos Theodorou from GaTech, Petros Voulgaris and Christos Papachristos from UNR, and Ali Karimoddini and Ioannis Raptis from NCAT, along with collaborators […]

Professor Naira Hovakimyan was recently hosted by TEDxYerevan that was using the hashtag #OnceUponAScience, where she spoke about the hidden cost of resistance to innovation. Watch her very inspiring talk at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFriUA9vWYI. You could view the PDF file of the talk at the following link at https://uofi.box.com/s/7xtmlwcgllmqi46em732w562iefdwrax.  

Congratulations to Kasey! He defended his Ph.D. final exam successfully!

Congratulations to Andrew! He defended his Ph.D. final exam successfully! Here is the final defense recording. The link to the video is https://uofi.box.com/s/gkh4b9ud8uzncjeloabekcg513220u36.

Congratulations! We start a new NSF-AoF collaborative research project: Safe Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary Environments With Fast Adaptation and Disturbance Prediction. This project aims to develop a framework to enable safe and efficient reinforcement learning for robot control in non-stationary environments, leveraging control theoretical tools for fast adaptation and perception-based disturbance prediction. Finnish Partners: Reza […]

Our presentation at the IEEE CCTA workshop on Multi-Vehicle and Assured Autonomous Control for Aerospace Applications can be downloaded here.  

Congratulations to Arun and Gabriel! They defended their Ph.D. final exams successfully! Here are the final defense recordings. Safe Planning and Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems via L1-Adaptive Control and Contraction Analysis Arun Lakshmanan The link to the video is https://uofi.box.com/s/zlsgmiykberl65bmnte0fmcbcz6sqt8y.   Efficient Risk-Averse Algorithms for Air-Ground Payload Transfers Gabriel Barsi Haberfeld The link to […]

Congratulations to Javier! He defended his Ph.D. final exam successfully! The final defense video is attached. The link to the video is https://uofi.box.com/s/51uvsvls20ehkqjm9behwdwb49od03tj.

Congratulations to Alexandre Barbosa for winning the Stanley I. Weiss Outstanding Thesis Award! Please check MechSE News.