About Us

Our mission is to advance state-of-the-art aerial autonomy by bridging the aerospace and robotic communities.

We are proud to be part of the Deparment of Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

Highlights

Aerial Manipulation with Contact-Aware Onboard Perception and Hybrid Control

Aerial manipulation (AM) promises to move Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) beyond passive inspecti...

A Self-Supervised Learning Approach with Differentiable Optimization for UAV Trajectory Planning

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant traction across various fields, pat...

Flying Hand: End-Effector-Centric Framework for Versatile Aerial Manipulation Teleoperation and Policy Learning

Aerial manipulation has recently attracted increasing interest from both industry and academia. P...

PyPose is officially released

A Library for Robot Learning with Physics-based Optimization

Latest News

• 08/2026: Congratulations to Yufei and Yuanzhu on passing the Ph.D. comprehensive exam!
• 08/2026: Congradulations to Jackson Fezell, Jack Pence, Yufei Jiang, and Yuanzhu Zhan on graduating with their Master of Science degrees！
• 04/2026: Dr.Geng received the NSF Career Award!
• 04/2026: Congratulations to Yufei on receiving the Harry G. Miller Fellowships in Engineering!
• 04/2026: Congratulations to Alex on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
• 02/2026: Congratulations to Yufei and Yuanzhu on passing the Ph.D. qualifying exam!
• 02/2026: Yufei presented our new work on this week's aerospace seminar series
• 02/2026: Dr. Muqing Cao visited our lab and gave a talk
• 02/2026: Two Papers Were Accepted to the ICRA 2026！
• 01/2026: Our Work Was Reported in the AIAA Year in Review Articles!

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