Lab Members
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Leopold Beuken, PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering
UAV disturbance rejection through distributed body strain sensing.
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Bethany Calvert, PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering
Bio-inspired modeling and control for unmanned autonomous vehicles.
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Zoe Turin, PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering
Controls and robotics.
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Alec Letsinger, MS Student
Mechanical Engineering
Machine learning approaches for guidance, navigation, and control of aircraft.
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Joshua Priest, MS Student
Mechanical Engineering
Dynamic system modeling through distributed IMU sensing and physics based deep learning.
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Tyler Scripps, UG Student
Computer Science Engineering
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Grace Farson, Ph.D. Student
Mechanical Engineering
Implementing explainable artificial intelligence into platforms with performance guarantees.
Alumni
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Dylan Ramaswamy, MS Student (2023)
Reactive motion planning and 3D perception for agile autonomous robots.
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Luís Bonet Ortuño, MS Student (2023)
Robotics and prosthetics.
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Dr. Shakeeb Ahmad, PhD Student (2022)
Reactive motion planning and 3D perception for agile autonomous robots.
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Dr. Michael Ohradzansky, PhD Student (2022)
Bio-inspired perception, control, and navigation algorithms for autonomous robots.
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Jonathan Bosnich, UG Student (2021)
Control of soft actuators.
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Xavier Ruiz, MS Student (2021)
Autonomous air vehicles design to achieve navigation and performance objectives using ROS and C++.
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Emily Ranquist, PhD Student (2021)
Controls systems for aerospace applications.
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Dr. Jishnu Keshavan, Senior Research Associate, PhD Student (2012)
Intersection of bioinspired vision and nonlinear estimation/control theory for enabling autonomous obstacle avoidance by unmanned ground/aerial robots in cluttered environments.
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Dr. Badri Narayanan Ranganathan, Research Associate, PhD Student (2017)
Dynamics and control of autonomous vehicles, bioinspired sensing, optic flow, avionics design, flow sensing, embedded firmware development, MEMS sensor design and fabrication.
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Dr. Cosima Schunk, Research Associate
Flapping wing flight dynamics, bio-inspired robotics, system identification.
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Zachary Edward Ott, PhD Student
Control of UAVs/quadcopters for urban navigation and modeling of soft tissue robotics to support growing fields and contribute to the future of industry.
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Prashant Ganesh, MS Student
Control and dynamics of UAVs, bio-inspired sensing, distributed accelerometers, hovercraft.
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Renee Campbell, MS Student (2012)
Flight dynamics and controls, system identification, bio-inspired sensing, navigation using wide-field integration of optic flow.
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Nicholas Kostreski, MS Student (2012)
Control and dynamics of flapping wing vehicles, insect flight kinematics and bio-inspired sensing techniques.
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Dr. Mac MacFarlane, PhD Student (2017)
Aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics as they apply to reduced order modeling of flapping wing flight dynamics.
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Dr. Lina Castano, Postdoctoral Scholar, PhD Student (2015)
Compliant sensors, capacitive strain measurements, distributed sensors on wings for detection of structural deformation as a tool to improve navigation and gust response.
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Dr. Joseph Conroy, Postdoctoral Scholar, PhD Student (2010)
Avionics design/development, system identification, control of micro air vehicles, and optic flow-based visual navigation.
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Dr. Kedar Dimble, PhD Student (2013)
Electrostatic analysis of underwater objects, fish dynamics and motion modeling, application of boundary element methods to underwater electric fields, wide-field integration processing, control oriented robotic implementation of electrolocation.
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Dr. Jared Grauer, Associated PhD Student (Morpheus Lab)
Dynamics and control of exotic vehicles, system identification, avionics development.
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Dr. Imraan Faruque, Research Faculty, Postdoctoral Scholar, PhD Student (2011)
Flapping wing flight dynamics, UAV and MAV flight control, system identification.
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Dr. Evan Ulrich, Associated PhD Student (AGRC)
Bio-inspired micro robotics (design & control), biological structures, flight dynamics (rotary & flapping), and human space flight.
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Dr. Greg Gremillion, PhD Student (2014)
Dynamics and control of autonomous vehicles, bio-inspired sensing and guidance, emphasizing a convergence of multiple sensing modalities, computer vision, system identification.
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Derek Miller, MS Student (2012)
Attitude stabilization and autonomous navigation of a micro-quadrotor helicopter.
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Doug Szczublewski, MS Student (2012)
Flight dynamics and control, aircraft system identification, UAV and MAV avionics.
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Scott Owen, MS Student (2009)
Flight dynamics, control, stochastic properties of wide-field integrated optic flow measurements.
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Nil Gurel, MS Student (2016)
Bio-inspired visual processing, analog VLSI, ocelli sensing for angular velocity and attitude estimation.
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Dr. Jason Vance, Postdoctoral Scholar (2010)
Insect flight biomechanics and aerodynamics, with a focus on mechanisms for gust rejection, kinematic and aerodynamic responses to wing wear, comparative sensory-limitations to maneuverability, and ontogeny and ecology of maximal flight performance.
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Dr. Hector Escobar, PhD Student (2015)
Bio-inspired visual processing, embedded systems, flight dynamics and control.
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Cyrus Abdollahi, MS Student (2010)
Aircraft system identification, flight dynamics, helicopter aerodynamics, controls and flight testing.
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Bryan Patrick, MS Student (2010)
Control theory, flight dynamics, insect vision, optic flow.
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Dr. Andrew Hyslop, PhD Student (2010)
Interpretation of insect tangential cells used for processing of optic flow, stabilization and navigation of 6-DOF platforms using wide-field integration of optic flow.
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Alex Dean, MS Student (2015)
Wind and gust sensing, bio-inspired hair sensors, disturbance rejection, estimation and control.
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Julia Ashkanazy, MS Student (2015)
Biologically inspired navigational strategies using atmospheric scattering patterns.
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Michael Chinn, MS Student (2008)
MAV control, optic flow using infrared cameras.