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

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

Perception and Manipulation

My research is guided by the desire to develop next generation of robotics, characterized by the ...

Contributing to the Diversity

A diverse and inclusive working and learning environment fosters the understanding, communication...

Latest News

• 02/2026: Congratulations to Yufei and Yuanzhu on passing the PhD 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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