Time to enjoy the fall colors before winter finally kicks in! On Sunday, October 5th, the Systems & Controls group is hiking up the Indian Peaks to reach Lake Isabelle. Early wake up is required to see the sunrise and, hopefully, moose!
It is my pleasure to welcome Jieqiu Shao , or Jay, as the newest member of the ROCC lab. Jay approached me at the end of last semester, asking if he could work on a summer project for the control or an UAV carrying a suspended load. After three months...
Andrea Mengozzi will be joining the ROCC lab for the next six months to work on his master thesis, which will focus on the Control of a Tilt-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle . Andrea's research effort will be overseen by Jacob Cook who has graciously agreed to serve as a mentor...
Terrence Skibik will be joining the ROCC lab to pursue his PhD in Systems and Control. I met Terry at ACC '18 (and again at CDC '18), where he was presenting the results of his undergraduate research project. He made a lasting impression, so I was very happy when he...
Please join me in wishing farewell to Kelly Merckaert and Bryan Convens , who have successfully completed their six-month research stay here in CU Boulder. Kelly and Bryan did an amazing job on their respective research projects and somehow managed to also squeeze in a few hikes and ski trips...
The video is one of the final experiments performed by Bryan Convens at the end of his six-month stay at CU Boulder. During his research stay, Bryan developed a Distributed ERG add-on to the Crazyswarm framework. The addon enables crazyflies to perform real-time formation changes without requiring any form of...
For those of you who don't know him, Dominic Liao-McPherson is a PhD student at University of Michigan and a close friend of the ROCC lab. The two of us met during my postdoc and have been collaborating ever since. I'm proud to announce that his paper "A Semismooth Predictor...
Thomas Dearing has been selected for a summer internship at the Air Force Research Laboratory , where he will be joining the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls group of the Space Vehicle Directorate . This internship will hopefully help guide his current work towards new and even more exciting applications.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 16th: The entire Dynamics & Controls group is hitting the slopes of Loveland Pass for a full day of skiing/snowboarding! Side activities for those who don't know how to ski include snowshoeing, fat tire biking, or other snow-related adventures (such as learning how to...
