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Bilal and Javier Work Together to Crack Coordinated Flight
Bilal, left, tests his controls for the micro UAV as Javier, right, holds its tethers. Tethered flights like this are a good way of calibrating controls without having to chase the UAV all over the...
View ArticleACRL working with Illinois Laboratory for Agricultural Remote Sensing and...
ACRL got an SBIR Phase 1 award from NSF to work with IntelinAir and the Illinois Laboratory for Agricultural Remote Sensing to develop an aerial weed scout to isolate weed clusters in crops, and...
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Professor Hovakimyan receives Society of Women Engineers 2015 Achievement Award
Professor Naira Hovakimyan has received the 2015 Achievement Award given by the Society of Women Engineers! Read more about this award below, we have pasted a copy of the article from the CSL News and...
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Bibbidi Bobbidi Bots: ASPIRE to improve lives of senior citizens
Prof. Hovakimyan has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop co-robots for elderly citizen care. The expertise in flight control and navigation algorithms from...
View ArticleA UIUC Researcher Just Got $1.5M To Create Robot Assistants For The Elderly
Karis Hustad, staff writer for the ChicagoInno, featured a super interesting news piece on our ASPIRE National Science Foundation grant! Check it out here!
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Hovakimyan named W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor
Professor Naira Hovakimyan has been named the next W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor by the Mechanical Science and Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign....
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NICER Robotics – Virtual Reality with L1 Adaptive Control Quad
The Focal Point Project NICER Robotics has just launched its new website! Please check it out at nicer-robotics.com . In the website, we have a blog with updates on the project’s development. Our...
View ArticleASPIRE on Internet of Things Podcast
This Thursday, October 15th, Professor Hovakimyan gave an interview about ASPIRE and the future of drones for Stacey Higginbotham’s Internet of Things podcast!...
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ACRL’s Flight Controller Recognized as a Key Technology in Future Travelers’...
Dr. Hovakimyan, Enric and Kasey with the students of TPS An article from Press Examiner features Mobility apps, Maglev, Hyperloop and L1 Flight Controller as new technologies that make travelling...
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ASPIRE Featured in The New York Times
John Markoff from The New York Times has featured ASPIRE in his article “As Aging Population Grows, So Do Robotic Health Aides”. You can also check out the article published by The Daily Mail where...
View ArticleHuman-Robot Interaction in Virtual Reality
We have built a virtual-reality simulator to design quadrotor robots that increase the independence of elderly persons living alone. The simulator lets us measure under what conditions a robot makes...
View ArticleNICER Robotics Awarded CSL Video of the Month
Our research focuses on providing framework for cyber-physical systems to co-operate inside congested urban zones amidst human population. Next 10 years will see unprecedented demand for personal,...
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Professor Hovakimyan receives Society of Women Engineers 2015 Achievement Award
Professor Naira Hovakimyan has received the 2015 Achievement Award given by the Society of Women Engineers! Read more about this award below, we have pasted a copy of the article from the CSL News and...
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L1 Flight Controller Soon on F-16 Fighter Jet
The L1 Flight Controller will soon be tested on another manned aircraft, the F-16. ACRL students are working hard to design the flight controller for the test that will be carried out this fall....
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F-16 Testing Featured in Aviation Week
This fall’s flight test on the variable stability F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base has sparked interest with Aviation Week, commenting on the potential for the L1 control system to be used as a failsafe...
View ArticleDrones Featured at Aging 2.0 OPTIMIZE in San Francisco
Click here to view the embedded video. Aging 2.0 OPTIMIZE was created to address the issues with the aging process, in particular, the lack of good technology available for elderly people and...
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Hovakimyan named AIAA Fellow
Professor Naira Hovakimyan is named among the class of 2017 Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Click here to read the official AIAA press release. Read more about this...
View ArticleNew book now available: Time-Critical Cooperative Control of Autonomous Air...
Time-Critical Cooperative Control of Autonomous Air Vehicles presents, in an easy-to-read style, the latest research conducted in the industry, while also introducing a set of novel ideas that...
View ArticleDURIP award granted
We just got a DURIP award to build a scaled-down airspace physical simulator. This testbed will consist of an indoor flight-test area equipped with a motion capture system and an ultra-wideband (UWB)...
View ArticleWe welcome new members in our lab
Our new team members: Postdoc: Donghwan Lee. Ph.D. students: Arman Shahinyan, Neng Wan, and Muhammad Aneeq Uz Zaman. Undergraduate students: Zhengyu Chen, Chenghao Duan, and Jad Faraj.
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