2022

12/07/2022 – Congratulations Baris on successfully defending your PhD Dissertation, “Robust Synthesis Methods for Cooperative Systems”. 12/5/2022 – Congratulations Tsung-Liang (Edward) on successfully completing your PhD Comprehensive Exam. Dissertation proposal title “Optimal Aggressive Constrained Trajectory Synthesis and Control for Multi-Copters” 11/28/2022 – We had visitors from Granbury High School (Juniors…

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2021

November:

Congratulations to Rajnish Bhusal on getting his paper titled, “Robust Stability Margin of Continuous-Time Cooperative Unmanned Systems” accepted for publication in the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Congratulations to Uluhan Cem Kaya on getting his paper titled, “Momentum Preserving Simulation of Cooperative Multi-Rotors with Flexible-Cable Suspended Payload” accepted for publication in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control

July:

Great job Rajnish Bhusal on successfully defending your PhD dissertation titled “Uncertainty Propagation, Control, and Estimation of Stochastic Dynamic Systems Using Generalized Polynomial Chaos Expansion

June:

Great job Kati Balachandran on successfully defending your PhD dissertation titled “Shape Modeling, Attitude Estimation and Classification of Artificial Resident Space Objects Using Photometric Light Curves”.

Kati’s paper titled, “Comparison of Deterministic Methods to Estimate Sidereal Rotation Period From Light Curves” has been accepted for publication in the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. Congratulations Kati!

Kamalkumar Mehta successfully defended his thesis titled, “Object Classi fication, Detection and State Estimation using YOLO v3 Deep Neural Network and Sensor Fusion of Stereo Camera and LiDAR“. Great job Kamal! We are proud of you.

May:

Diganta’s paper titled, “Set-Membership Filter for Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems Using State Dependent Coefficient Parameterization”, is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Congratulations Diganta.

Rajnish and Diganta receive the Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School. Congratulations to both of you.

April:

Dr. Subbarao receives the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award (Tenured Faculty) award for 2021

Dr. Subbarao is elected Fellow of the American Astronautical Society.

Dr. Subbarao was nominated for the university wide Outstanding Academic Advisor for 2020-21. This is the second nomination for the same in 3 years. A sincere thanks to the students who took the time to nominate me.

Anant Joshi and Kamesh Subbarao, “Uncertainty Quantification and Analysis of Dynamical Systems with Invariants”, which appeared at the 2019 Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, was selected as the recipient of the Best Paper Award for the 2019 Space Flight Mechanics Meeting.

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March:

Baris and Rajnish’s paper titled “A Nested Robust Controller Design for Interconnected Linear Parameter Varying Aerial Vehicles” was accepted for publication in the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics.

February:

Diganta’s paper titled “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and Collision Cone-Based Missile Guidance Algorithm” accepted for the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. We co-authored this paper with Dr. Animesh Chakravarthy.

January:

A very happy new year to all of you.

Welcome Mayuko Shinohara (MS, AE), Steven George (MS, AE), and Sagar Roka (PhD, AE) to ASL.

2020

Diganta successfully passes his PhD Comprehensive Exam on December 07, 2020. Great job Diganta!! The committee was unanimously impressed. Diganta’s paper “Set-Membership Filtering-Based Leader-Follower Synchronization of Discrete-time Linear Multi-Agent Systems” got accepted on December 07, 2020 for publication in ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control Diganta’s paper “Extremum…

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2019

Ameya’s paper on “Nonlinear Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Cable Suspended Payloads,” is accepted for publication in the Aerospace Science and Technology (Springer), 2019 Ameya accepted an offer to join The MathWorks Inc., starting in Fall 2019. Congratulations Ameya! Rajnish presented his paper titled, “Sensitivity Analysis of Cooperating Multi-Agent Systems with…

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2018

Congratulations Ameya on passing your comprehensive exam and defending your PhD proposal (December 14, 2018). Congratulations Prabhjeet on successfully defending your MS thesis (November 27, 2018). Roopak accepts an offer to start PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, starting Fall 2018. We wish you the best Roopak. Laura’s paper on…

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2017

Congratulations Paul Quillen for passing your PhD comprehensive exam and defending your proposal. Great job Paul! Congratulations to Murali VNV, Denish Baman and Sachit Kaul for defending your MS theses. Great job all of you! ASL welcomes several new members: Sanjana Choudhary and Jacobus Matthee (UG researchers), Kati Balachandran (AE…

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2016

Commencement ceremony on December 17, 2016 – Ryan and Tracie will be walking. Ryan and Tracie successfully defended their PhD dissertations on December 9 and 13 respectively. Ryan goes back to Raytheon and Tracie will begin her dream job with NASA Ames. We wish them the best. Upcoming Defense dates:…

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2015

Shashank successfully defended his MS thesis, titled Automatic Carrier Landing System for V/STOL Aircraft Using L_1 Adaptive and Optimal Control in Fall, 2015 Brian successfully defended his PhD Dissertation, titled Bayesian Statistics and Information Fusion for GPS-Denied Navigation in Fall, 2015 Gus successfully defended his PhD Dissertation, titled Novel neuro-dynamic…

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2014

Alok presents his paper at the ASME IMECE November 2014 titled “COMPARISON OF CONTROL TECHNIQUES TO MODULATE THE FAN SPEED OF A GENSET COOLING SYSTEM” Pavan’s paper is accepted in ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control (October, 15) Brian submits paper to ACC 2015, Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering Techniques for Terrain Referenced Navigation.…

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