| Jun 17, 2026 | Our paper Thermodynamic Particle Swarm Optimization Swarm Search in Dynamic Environment, by Evan Sill, Kavan Bojappa, and Junsoo Lee, was accepted at IMECE 2026. 🎉 |
| May 09, 2026 | Kavan Bojappa and Evan Sill graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and Hanna Lutz and Tyler Hilbert graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. Congratulations! 🎓 |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Congratulations to three Dynamics and Control Lab undergraduates on their research awards: Dan Walters received the Journey Grant for Early Researchers Award (Multi-layered Decision Making for Long-term Autonomous UAV System with Battery Degradation); Ashton Keller received the Capstone Scholars Program award (Battery Degradation in Long Term UAV Missions); and Elisheba Lee received the Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant Program award (Thermodynamic Particle Swarm Optimization for Autonomous Reconnaissance and Search). 🎉 |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Hanna Lutz, Andersen Spina, and Shashwat Yadav presented their work at Discover USC 2026 — where Andersen won First Place in Morning UGR: Engineering and Computing C. 🏆🎓 |
| Apr 04, 2026 | Dan Walters received the McNair Research Fellowship for Summer 2026, for his project The Effect of Battery Management on Continuous UAV Field Monitoring. 🎉 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Shashwat Yadav received the NASA South Carolina Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Award, for his project Robust Control Framework for Retractable Tether Multirotor UAVs. 🚀 |
| Dec 13, 2025 | Shruti Jadhav graduated with a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations! 🎓 |
| Dec 05, 2025 | Congratulations to Peter Muir and Bode DiMarzio on receiving Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant Awards — Peter for Distributed Particle Swarm Optimization for 3D Aerial Swarm Systems, and Bode for Dynamic Thermodynamic Particle Swarm Optimization for Ground Swarm in Confined Space. 🎉 |
| Nov 17, 2025 | Hanna Lutz and Shashwat Yadav presented at the Undergraduate Expo, IMECE 2025, Memphis — where Shashwat won second prize. 🥈 |
| Nov 04, 2025 | Junsoo Lee was nominated for the 2026 Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. 🎉 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Two papers — Lyapunov-like Theorems for Ultimately Bounded Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems and Thermodynamic Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-agent System in Unknown Environment — were accepted for publication at MECC 2025 (Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference). 🎉 |
| Apr 25, 2025 | At Discover USC 2025, Hanna Lutz presented Realizing Digital Finite Time Control by Implicit Discretization, Kavan Bojappa presented Lyapunov-Based Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-Agent Rendezvous, and Mathison Eckenrode presented Collaborative Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. 🎓 |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Andersen Spina received a Magellan Scholar Research Grant for his project Flywheel Mechanism Human-Mounted Fixed-Wing UAV Launcher. 🎉 |
| Jan 15, 2025 | New article on Nontangency-Based Lyapunov Tests for Convergence and Stability in Discrete-Time Systems published in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems. |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Kavan Bojappa received the Magellan Scholar Award for his project Particle Swarm Optimization for Autonomous Rendezvous Control of a Multi-Agent System. 🎉 |
| May 01, 2024 | Our paper Fixed time stability of discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems appeared in Automatica. |
| Feb 20, 2024 | Kavan Bojappa was selected as a Magellan Ambassador for his active engagement with the Magellan Undergraduate Research Program. 🎉 |
| May 30, 2023 | Kavan Bojappa received the NASA South Carolina Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Student Research Award for his project on Particle Swarm Optimization. 🚀 |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Kavan Bojappa received the Magellan Mini-Grant Award for his project Study of Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-agent Dynamical Systems. 🎉 |
| Aug 01, 2022 | Joined the University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and started the Dynamics and Control Lab. 🎉 |