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

AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning

Standardized benchmarks have played a central role in advancing robot manipulation learning, yet ...

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...

Latest News

• 09/2026: Our paper AM-Bench was accepted to the CoRL 2026！
• 08/2026: Our paper was accepted to the IROS 2026 workshop！
• 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

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