Advanced Controls Research Laboratory

Welcome to the website of the Advanced Controls Research Laboratory. Here we work on a wide range of interdisciplinary problems, and we collaborate with industry and government laboratories on the transition and commercialization of our solutions across different industries.

Naira wins the Outstanding Advisor Award

May 12, 2023

Congratulations to Naira for winning the Outstanding Advisor Award! https://mechse.illinois.edu/news/55496

Lin was awarded the 2023-2024 Yee Fellowship!

April 12, 2023

Congratulations to Lin Song, our Ph.D. student, for being awarded the prestigious Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship! The Yee Memorial Fellowship is awarded to five engineering ...

Congratulations to Our Lab for Winning the 3rd Place at the Engineering Open House

April 11, 2023

We won the 3rd Place at the Engineering Open House in ‘The Future, Today.’ The detail can be checked here.

AVIATE SEMINAR “Robust and Resilient Autonomy for Advanced Air Mobility

February 28, 2023

The seminar is presented by Dr. Christopher Elliott. The video and slides can be found here.

Congratulations! Naira named NAI Senior Member!

February 20, 2023

MechSE Professor Naira Hovakimyan’s success in patents, licensing, and commercialization has earned entry into the 2023 class of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors ...

Return to Onsite: In-Person Group Meeting in 2023 Spring Semester

January 27, 2023

We have returned to onsite for an in-person group meeting starting this week! Dr. Tigran Bakaryan presented his research in Mean Field Games theory.

Congratulations! Wenbin Wan defended his thesis successfully!

November 11, 2022

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

TEDx Talks: The hidden cost of resistance to innovation in science

December 10, 2021

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. ...

We are selected as one of the four winners of NASA’s 5th round of the University Leadership Initiative competition!

November 30, 2021

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/. ...