Professor Naira Hovakimyan gave a science talk on “Aerial Co-Robots of the Future”.

We met our previous group member-Venanzio Cichella,  currently a faculty at the University of Iowa and Ziyi Wang from Evangelos Theodorou’s group at CDC in Nice. We have two students in our group presented at CDC 2019. Check our gallery for pictures.

Prof. Naira Hovakimyan from CSL speaks on her ongoing project, Virtual Sully, an advanced autopilot system designed to handle large uncertainties on Friday, November 8th at 3 pm in CSL.

Congratulations! We start a very interesting NSF funded project: “Virtual Sully”: Autopilot with Multilevel Adaptation for Handling Large Uncertainties. An interesting project regarding autopilots and their ability to mitigate risks inspired by the US Airways Flight 1549 in 2009 and Captain Chesley Sullenberger (“Sully”) and his co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles. Link to Grainger College of Engineering […]

Link to MechSE News. 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