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.