News
October 5, 2014
On Sept. 20th, 2014, Saturday, on the campus of The Da Vinci Center for Innovative Learning of SJCOE, Stockton, CA, Dr. Chen gave 4 sessions of lectures, each with 45 min. to a group of nearly 60 elementary school teachers on "The Age of Data-Drones: Wright Brothers 2.0". This outreach...
October 5, 2014
MESA Lab Manager Brandon Stark was invited to serve a panel at the event "Connecting the Dots in Unmanned Aerial Systems & Cyber Security" to be held on Friday, December 12, 2014 from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM (PST), Pomona, CA. The invitation was extended by Professor Subodh Bhandari...
October 5, 2014
MESA Lab Welcomes Three New Visiting Scholars.
Professor. Dr. Jianxin Liu is a full professor of School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Xihua University, China. He got his Ph.D. in Chongqing University, P. R. China, December 1997. His research covers measurement-control theory and its...
August 14, 2014
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) UC Merced Student Branch is now officially established! We also got a nice frame from AIAA. (photo)
2018 News
AIAA Region IV Student Conference 4/7/2018. Program PDF file.
DBF again 2018.
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Final...
August 14, 2014
8/14/2014. Merced, California.
We would like to announce our successful flights of missions today at Vernal Pool and Grassland Reserve, UC Merced's scientific data-drone flight test site approved by FAA under COA-2014-WSA-29 (PDF).
The most interesting features of these history making flights...
July 9, 2014
We are very pleased to share that, our second FAA COA was approved today 7/9/2014. The COA site is UC Merced's new Natural Reserve http://vernalpools.ucmerced.edu/ (MAP).
The full text of the FAA COA in PDF is here. Out first FAA COA was approved Nov. 11, 2013. Site map is here....
July 9, 2014
Service website (http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/MADbook) for the textbook
"Modeling, Analysis and Design of Control Systems in MATLAB and Simulink" (World Scientific 2014)
By
Dingyu Xue, Northeastern University, Shenyang, P R China, and
YangQuan Chen, University of California,...
June 3, 2014
MESA Lab Manager Brandon Stark Attended FAA UAS COE Public Meeting May 28-29 in Washington DC.
COE for UAS Public Meeting May 28-29
Download the Agenda (PDF)
Download the Announcement
In accordance with Public Law 101-508, the FAA plans to competitively select a Center of...
June 3, 2014
MESA Lab Manager Brandon Stark Will Attend UAS Summit on Challenges and Opportunities on the Road to Integration on June 10th, San Diego.
http://www.auvsisandiego.com/uploads/CoE_UAS_Summit_Save_the_Date_6102014.pdf
or this website
http://www.unmannedcoe.com/
Brandon Stark serves as an invited...
May 25, 2014
The details of this pre-conference tutorial can be found at http://uasconferences.com/ICUAS14_T1.pdf (5/27/2014, Orlando, FL)
(Local PDF copy is here) http://www.icuas.com/committee.html
The ICUAS14 webiste is http://uasconferences.com/ and the final program is at https://controls.papercept.net/...