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It's been a long year, yet somehow the 2024 Engineering Expo almost managed to sneak up on us. Still, I'm pleased to say that the Senior Design Team Still Compiling managed to pull off the unthinkable: with just one day to spare, they successfully merged all the subsystems and moving...

This video features the Still Compiling Team showing off their Senior Design project at the 2024 Engineering Expo . The drone is not controlled via a (boring) RF antenna, but via an optical link between a photodiode array on the drone and a laser mounted on a swiveling ground station...

It is my pleasure to welcome Yu Kang Kong into our evergrowing list of ROCC undergraduate researchers. Yu Kang is currently a student enrolled in my ECEN 2260 class and is looking to find out how large of a step there is from Transfer Functions to Control Theory. Given our...

I'm overjoyed to announce that Thomas Lee Dearing has just passed his thesis defense with flying colors. Dr. Dearing is the first member of the ROCC team to graduate and has asked whether the ski and hike trips remain open to former members (to which the answer is, obviously, "Yes!")...

This article illustrates our group's most recent progress in developing an optimal path planner for rigid-body spacecraft rotations using Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMG's). This work improves upon our previous project by incorporating fully-modelled spacecraft actuators and addressing all of the fascinating complexities they add to the optimization problem. Above is...

This visualization illustrates our recent work in developing an optimal maneuver planner for rigid-body satellite rotations. Specifically, this animation shows how our solver reshapes a 180º rotation about the satellite's z-axis to be both optimal and feasible . In general, finding a maneuver which is optimal (e.g. uses the minimum...

I am very proud to announce that Thomas Dearing has been selected for a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship . This is a prestigious and highly competitive award that supports the research efforts of graduate students working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The fellowship will enable Tommy to...

This is the support video for the article "A Distributed Explicit Reference Governor for the Safe On-Board Control of a Nano-Quadrotor Swarm" submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics. The paper summarizes the work done by Bryan Convens during his six-month research stay at CU Boulder. These experiment represent a significant...

Andrea Mengozzi has completed his research stay at CU Boulder and is now heading back to Italy to present his work as a master thesis project. I wish him the best of luck in hope that he will cherish the memories of his stay here.

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...