Control

Omnicopters for Spacecraft Simulation

AFRL-funded senior design project using omnicopters as hardware-in-the-loop spacecraft simulators. Developed optimal motor placement and a novel indoor disturbance-rejection …

Autonomous Vehicles with Safety Guarantees

Suite of autonomous driving demonstrations combining nonlinear MPC with control barrier functions (CBF-nMPC) for provably safe lane changes with dynamic obstacles.

Automated Turret

Blob-detection target acquisition with pixel-to-torque feedback control, tuned via data-driven transfer function identification.

Adaptive HVAC for Unknown Deployment

Physics-informed ARX system identification and PID optimization for HVAC control in environments with uncertain thermal parameters.

Trebuchet Competition

Model identification and regression for optimal trebuchet performance — part of Rocker Robotics competition team activities.

Reinforcement Learning Control Demonstration

Outreach demonstration covering RL control fundamentals, algorithm benchmarking, and live examples for a general audience.

Terrain Investigational and Navigational Automaton (TINA)

Differential drive robot with computer vision-based path detection and pixel-to-torque feedback control for autonomous course navigation.