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Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CSL Social Hour Talk: Virtual Sully
Prof. Naira Hovakimyan from CSL speaks on her ongoing project, Virtual Sully, an advanced autopilot system designed to handle large…
NSF Award Granted: “Virtual Sully”
Congratulations! We start a very interesting NSF funded project: "Virtual Sully": Autopilot with Multilevel Adaptation for Handling Large Uncertainties. An…
Next Generation School Outreach
Link to MechSE News. On July 12 2019, our lab and CSL participated to at the next generation outreach event…
Thiago Marinho defended his thesis successfully!
Congratulations to Thiago! He defended his PhD final exam successfully!
Diaper Party: Baby shower to welcome Helena
Alex held a wonderful picnic & diaper party, and we had a great time on Helena's baby shower party.
Donglei Sun defended his thesis successfully!
Congratulations to Donglei! He defended his PhD final exam successfully! He will go back to China after graduation.
Congratulations! Arun’s paper got accepted in RSS.
The Paper 'Proximity Queries for Absolutely Continuous Parametric Curves' is accepted in RSS. The paper and the code can be downloaded…
Saturday Lab Meeting Full Day: Great discussion with Professor Theodorou
Today we had a great discussion with Evangelos A. Theodorou. His research interests span the areas of stochastic optimal control,…
Hyung-Jin Yoon defended his thesis successfully!
Congratulations to Hyung-Jin! He defended his thesis "Path Planning and Control of Flying Robots with Account of Human's Safety Perception"…
Congratulations! Javier Puig-Navarro got the Aerospace Engineering Alumni Advisory Board Fellowship
Javier Puig-Navarro was recently recognized as the recipient of the Aerospace Engineering Alumni Advisory Board Fellowship.