Congratulations to Yufei and Yuanzhu on passing the PhD qualifying exam!

Big congratulations to Yufei and Yuanzhu on passing their PhD qualifying exam taken on February 7, 2026! Now they are official Doctoral students in the Ph.D. program of the Aerospace Engineering Program.

Yufei presented our new work on this week's aerospace seminar series

Yufei presented our new paper just got accepted by ICRA 2026 on this weeks' aerospace seminar series, titled in "A Self-Supervised Learning Approach with Differentiable Optimization for UAV Trajectory Planning".

Dr. Muqing Cao visited our lab and gave a talk

Dr. Muqing Cao, a Postdoctoral Fellow from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, visited our lab and gave a talk titled in Planning Cooperative Robots for Tethered Long-duration Operation and Aerial Inspection.

Two Papers Were Accepted to the ICRA 2026！

Our Work Was Reported in the AIAA Year in Review Articles！

Congratulations! Our paper A Self-Supervised Learning Approach with Differentiable Optimization for UAV Trajectory Planning was included in the 2026 AIAA year in review articles.

Two Papers Were Accepted to AIAA SciTech Forum 2026！

Our Paper AirIO Was Accepted to RAL！

Our Paper Flying Hand Was Accepted to the RSS 2025！

Our Paper iMPC Was Accepted to the L4DC 2025！

Our Paper iKap Was Accepted to the ICRA 2025！

Congradulations to Xiangfu Li on Earning His M.Eng. Degree！

We sincerely thank him for his outstanding contributions to the initial setup and development of our lab.

Lab Thanksgiving Family Gathering

Our lab celebrated Thanksgiving with a warm and joyful gathering, enjoying great food and fun games together.