News

09/2024:

We received grant from AFRL to work on On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM).

08/2024:

Zhi (Joe) presented our work on "Invariant Manifolds Representation in Three-Body Systems based on Tensor Function Approximators" at 2024 AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference.

06/2024:

Chaoying (Paige) passed her final defense exam and will join Missouri University of Science and Technology as an assistant Professor, Congratulations Dr. Pei!

04/2024:

Chaoying (Paige) received the first place in AAE Research Symposium.

04/2024:

Roha passed her thesis defense exam, Congratulations!

03/2024:

Dr. Dai gave an invited seminar entitled "Smart Decision-Making for Autonomous Systems in Space Exploration Missions" at Auburn University.

01/2024:

Roha presented our paper on Cislunar trajectory optimization at 2024 SciTech Conference.

10/2023:

Yuto presented our paper on "Origami-Inspired Deployable Space Debris Collector" at 2023 IROS Conference.

09/2023:

Our collaborative proposal on solar-powered UAVs received grant from NSF Fundational Research in Robotics (FRR) Program. 
 
08/2023:
 
Yotu and Yooseung joined our group, welcome on board!
 
07/2023:
 
Our paper entitled "Design and Transformation Control of Triangulated Origami Tessellation: A Network Perspective" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
 
05/2023:
 
Adi and Harrison joined our group as summer SURF students. They will work on the project of multi-type locomotive robots for planetary exploration.
 
03/2023:

Dr. Dai gave an invited seminar entitled "Smart Decision-Making for Autonomous Systems in Space Exploration Missions" at Virgina Tech.

02/2023:

Sixiong (Sean) passed his final defense exam and will join Eli Lilly as a research scientist, Congratulations Dr. You!

01/2023:

Paige, Sean, and Roha presented our EDL Guidance work at 2023 SciTech conference.

01/2023:

Dr. Dai is recognized by the College of Engineering as an Outstanding Engineering Teacher.

12/2022:

Chaoying (Paige)  received 2023-24 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship.

12/2022:

Chuangchuang presented our work on distributed rank minimization at CDC 2022.

11/2022:

Dr. Dai was elected AIAA Associate Fellow. 

09/2022:

Our collaborative proposal on Autonomy of Space Opertions with Drs. Mesbahi and Yang from UW and Dr. Zhao from Standford was funded by NSF CPS Program.

08/2022:

Zhi Xu and Roha Gul Joined our group, welcome!

07/2022:

Vinay passed his thesis defense exam and will join Purdue ME department as a P.h.D student.

06/2022:

Sean Presented our work on Feture Learning based Optimal Control at 2022 ACC.

05/2022:

Our paper on distributed rank minimization was accepted by IEEE Control System Letter.

01/2022:

Chaoying (Paige)  and Godfrey presented our work on EDL Guidance at 2022 Scitech.

12/2021:

Charlie presented our work on Origami folding control at 2021 CDC. 

11/2021:

Sean You passed the general exam and is now a PhD candidate.

09/2021:

Chaoying Pei (Paige) passed the qualifying exam, Congratulations!

08/2021:

Our alumnus Dr. Chuangchuang Sun joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Mississippi State University as an assistant professor, Congratulations!
 
08/2021:
 
Graduate Research Assistant positions available!
 
05/2021:
 
Charlie passed his Ph.D. defense exam and will join the Aerospace Engineering Department at Tuskegee University as an Assistant Professor, Congrats Dr. Wan!
 
02/2021:
 
Our paper "Angle-Based Sensor Network Localization" was accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
 
01/2021:
 
Three of our papers were presented in 2021 Scitech conference.
 
12/2020:
 
Sean presented our paper "Local Optimization of Nonconvex Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming Problems" at the virtual 2020 CDC conference.
 
11/2020:
 
Our paper "A Unified Formulation and Nonconvex Optimization Method for Mixed-Type Decision-Making of Robotic Systems" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
 
08/2020:
 
The AOL group moved to Purdue University. We are excited to embark on this new journey!