Student Projects
Undergraduate Students
- Development of Custom Autopilot for UAVs using National Instrument's CompactRIO
- Syed Danish Zaidi, CCRAA Undergraduate Research Apprentice(January-September 2009) and Recipient of 2009 President's Council Scholarship
- Sergey Yushin
- Custom Avionics System for Unmannded Aerial Vehicles
- Victor Loera, CCRAA Undergraduate Research Apprentice (Summer 2009- Summer 2010)
- Steffi Valkov
- Autonomous Operation of a Blimp for Position Hold and Waypoint Navigation
- Joshua Thompson, CCRAA Undergraduate Research Apprentice (Summer 2009-Summer 2010)
- Autonomous Flight of Airplane and Helicopter UAVs using Piccolo Autopilot
- Hovig Yaralian
- Matthew Rose
- Joseph Wagster
- Development of Robust Unmanned Aerial System
using Time-Triggered Protocol
- Suk Hyung Lee, CCRAA Undergraduate Research Apprentice (Summer 2010-Spring 2011)
- Model Rocket Auto-Trajectory Correction
- Coordination and Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Luis Andrade, Recipient of 2010-2011 CaSGC UROP Award and CCRAA Summer 2011 Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship
- Estimation of Angle of Attack and Sideslip from Inertial Measurement
- Samira Motiwala, Recipient of 2010-2011 CaSGC UROP Award and CCRAA Summer 2011 Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship
- Obstacle Avoidance System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Joseph Wagster, Recipient of 2010-2011 CaSGC UROP Award
- Hovig Yaralian, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Matthew Rose
- Increasing Robustness of UAV Formation Flight
- Fady Ghabrial, Recepient of CCRAA Summer 2011 Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship
- Robust Controllers for UAV Helicopters using H-Infinity Design Technique
- Recepient of CCRAA Summer 2011 Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship
Graduate Students
- David Ho, USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB (Master's Project Advisor, Sept. 2009)
- F-16 Angle of Attack Determination using the Production Inertial Navigation System
- Garrison Lindholm , Edwards AFB (Master's Project Advisor, Nov. 2010)
- Robust Nonlinear Control of UAVs
- Charles Wesley,
LMC Skunk Works, Palmdale (Master's Project Advisor, Dec. 2010)
- Path Planning for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Loose Formation Flight
- Shawn Rexius, Edwards AFB (Master's Project Advisor, March 2011)
- Nonlinear Control of High Fidelity Hypersonic Reentry Vehicle Model using Dynamic Inversion