Professor Hovakimyan gave a plenary lecture “Aerial Co-robots of the Future” on AIAA GNC conference 2019. The abstract was recommended as the top talk for the plenary. Congratulations on this significant accomplishment!
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Professor Hovakimyan gave a plenary lecture “Aerial Co-robots of the Future” on AIAA GNC conference 2019. The abstract was recommended as the top talk for the plenary. Congratulations on this significant accomplishment!
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We have several students in our group presenting at AIAA SciTech Forum 2019. Check our gallery for pictures.
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Congratulations to Hamid! He defended his thesis “Robust adaptive sampled-data control design for MIMO systems: applications in cyber-physical security” successfully! He will join Professor Lui Sha’s group at UIUC as a post-doc researcher.
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Hamid was selected as one of the five students who will receive the Fall 2018 Graduate College Travel Award and the MechSE Department “Schaller Travel Fund” to attend a conference. He will present the paper “Multirate Adaptive Control for MIMO Systems with Application to Cyber-Physical Security” at the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control […]
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Congratulations to Professor Hovakimyan for receiving Pendray Aerospace Literature Award. Click the following links to read more: Pendray Aerospace Literature Award Recipients, from AIAA. Hovakimyan earns prestigious AIAA honor for pioneering book, from MechSE.
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Professor Hovakimyan was interviewed by Illinois Innovators Podcast on how drones and ride sharers could team up for package delivery. Full interview Soundcloud audio is available here. Click the following links to read more about this project: Drones, ride sharers could team up for package delivery, from College of Engineering Synergetic Drone Delivery Network in Metropolis, […]
Read MoreArun Lakshmanan，a PhD researcher in our lab, recently completed a competitive summer internship with the company Oculus VR. In this position, he was researching within the field of virtual reality, also known as VR. Please click the following link to read more: PhD student interns at Oculus VR, from MechSE.
Read MoreWe just got a NSF award to develop a framework that synergizes manipulatable distribution networks, comprising autonomous flying robots (drones) with existing transport networks, towards enhanced autonomy and economics in logistics. Imagine that a ride-sharing vehicle outfitted with a docking device for packages on its roof is traveling through a distribution center towards downtown. A […]
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Venanzio Cichella, a recent graduate from our group, assumed a faculty job in University of Iowa. He started as assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering this fall. We wish him every success in his future career.
Read MoreCongratulations to Hamid! He was announced winner of CSL’s Video of the Month Award at CSL Social Hour last week. Check out his video titled “Zero Dynamics Attack Quadrotor” below. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnXVc4zTkU[/youtube]
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