Flight Dynamics and Control Lab

Belated congratulations to the GW undergraduate drone team, which achieved the most successful autonomous flight at the competition organized by RTX and held at Virginia Tech.

You guys should be really proud of yourselves!

https://youtu.be/dCvVSPeg8U4

Dr. Lee gave a keynote presentation at the IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNC). Dr. Tejaswi also gave a talk about variational integration of stochastic mechanical hybrid systems.

The conference was held at a "gorgeous" city of eastern France, and we stayed at the hotel built in the early 19th century. The beauty of the place was indescribable and the friendless of the attendees was incomparable: it was the opposite to the industrialized conference that I usually attend.

Looking forward to the next meeting.

Our new Vicon Valkyrie motion capture system is now up and running. Special thanks to Ben and Maneesh who put tremendous effort for design, acquisition, and installation.

Our new Nvidia A100 GPU server!

Congratulations Dr. Zichao Hou!

Congratulations Dr. K. C. for successfully defending his dissertation!

Huge congratulations to Karl on winning the prestigious DoD SMART Scholarship!

This is a flagship education program of DoD to cultivate the US STEM workforce, and it will provide full tuition, stipend, summer internship, and guaranteed employment at a DoD facility.

SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program The SMART Program was established to increase the DoD workforce with civilian scientists, engineers and researchers.

GW Engineering Showcase!

Spring bike trip with Dr. Wei's group.

We are awarded a new research project, entitled "CHASE: Cultivating Human-AI Synergy via Decentralized Elicitation and Learning," through the ONR Science of AI program. This is a collaborative research with Prof. Tian Lan (GW) and Mahdi Imani (Northeastern University)

Prof. Lee has been invited to the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems as an associate editor.

We are thrilled to announced that the team led by FDCL was awarded a research grant through the DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.

The research project, entitled Unified Large‐Scale Theoretical and Computational Frameworks for Invariance and Composition of Open Hybrid Dynamical Systems, is to investigate the inherent structures of complex hybrid systems through the perspectives of geometry, topology, homology, category, and uncertainties.

This is a collaborative research with mathematicians and engineers from University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and University of Florida, and the total award is $7.5M over five years.

Fiscal Year 2023 Research Funding Awards The Defense Department announced $220 million in awards for basic research projects as part of the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Program.

Prof. Lee has been invited to the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology as an associate editor.

TCST Editorial Board | IEEE Control Systems Society Position(s): IEEE TCST Editor-in-Chief Personnel: Andrea Serrani Ohio State University United States Email ORCID iD Contact Card × Andrea Serrani Email Biography Andrea Serrani (M’94) received the Laurea (B.Eng.) (summa cm laude) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ancona, An...

Tejaswi presented his work on imitation learning at IROS22, Kyoto, Japan.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9844175

Congratulations Dr. Weixin Wang for successfully completing his doctoral research!

Geometric Formulation of Uncertainties and Estimation for Three-Dimensional Rotations - ProQuest Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.

Congratulations Dr. Kanishke Gamagedara!

432 ship images (out of many) for object tracking and segmentation.

2022 SEAS R&D Posters

Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Plasma Cancer Treatment with Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy - Zichao

Deep Image Segmentation and Object Tracking for Known 3D Objects - Maneesha

Equivariant Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotor UAV - Ben

Autonomous Shipboard Landing of a UAV in a GPS Denied Environment - Kanishke Gamagedara

Bayesian Point Cloud Registration with Matrix Fisher-Gaussian Distribution - Weixin

Constrained Imitation Learning for a Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Tejaswi

2022 SEAS R&D Showcase

FDCL-IASL Bike Ride to Hains Point

Let's congratulate Dr. Mahdis Bn, who just started her new career as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering of University of Calgary! Best wishes to Professor Bisheban!!

Dr. Mahdis Bisheban featured in NRC Canada WIE

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/national-research-council_engineering-ai-discoverthenrc-activity-6813492105957163008-pvM7

National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada on LinkedIn: #engineering #AI #DiscoverTheNRC For International Women in Engineering Day, we’re continuing our celebration of excellence by introducing more talented women working in this...

FDCL old boys gathering at Prof. Wu's place~

By Kanishke Gamagedara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3e-30OnSUQ

Vision Based 3D Reconstruction

Congratulations Dr. Shankar Kulumani, who just took the position of NG&C Engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL)!

Preliminary flight experiments in Chesapeake Bay by Kanishke Gamagedara

https://youtu.be/_WXyo45Oo1Y

Autonomous Shipboard Landing of a UAV Autonomous landing of a UAV on the deck of a moving a ship==================================================The experiment was performed onboard the USNA res...

Cool project by Dr. Evan Kaufman, who is working on trajectory generation and control~

https://youtu.be/qrS_TfJfXKA

Scythe. It cuts. Scythe Launch Video 2021

FDCL Reunion 2021

https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2021.3073323

Matrix Fisher-Gaussian Distribution on SO(3) x R^n and Bayesian Attitude Estimation In this paper, a new probability distribution, referred to as the matrix Fisher-Gaussian distribution, is proposed on the product manifold of three-dimensional special orthogonal group and Euclidean space. It is constructed by conditioning a multivariate Gaussian distribution from the ambient Euclid...

Our new GPU workstation powered by Nvidia A100 up and running!