Members

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and director of the Dynamics and Control Lab.

Ph.D. candidate developing versatile and robust tethered multirotor UAV systems.

Undergraduate researcher studying long-term autonomy for uncrewed aerial vehicles.

Undergraduate researcher working on robust control of retractable-tether multirotor UAVs.

Undergraduate researcher developing a flywheel-based, human-mounted fixed-wing UAV launcher.

Undergraduate researcher working on dynamic thermodynamic particle swarm optimization for ground swarms in confined spaces.

Undergraduate researcher developing distributed particle swarm optimization for 3D aerial swarm systems.

Undergraduate researcher studying battery degradation in long-term UAV missions.

Undergraduate researcher applying thermodynamic particle swarm optimization to autonomous reconnaissance and search.

Studied dual-process decision-making for long-term autonomous missions.

Worked on Lyapunov-based particle swarm optimization for multi-agent rendezvous.

Worked on thermodynamic particle swarm optimization for swarm search in dynamic environments.

Worked on realizing digital finite-time control via implicit discretization.

Aerospace engineering graduate of the Dynamics and Control Lab.