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MESA Lab PID18 papers accepted and Prof. Chen was invited to deliver plenary talk at PID2018 in Ghent, Belgium

November 6, 2017
Prof. Chen was invited to deliver plenary talk at PID2018 in Ghent, Belgium 5/12/18 update: Plenary Talk slides (PPT) (PDF), Recorded video  [click here for post meeting photos and other plenary talk slides] [ Conference proceedings USB 121Mb, ask privately for a copy.]   It...

Prof. Chen's NRT-IAS seminar recorded and posted

October 28, 2017
Professor Chen gave a seminar lecture entitled "Fractional Calculus View of Intelligent Adaptive Systems" on 10/19/2017 Thursday 1:30-2:30 for the combined year-1 and year-2 cohorts of the UC Merced's NSF NRT program on IAS (Intelligent and Adaptive Systems) http://www.nrt-ias.org/...

NSF grant for big data and machine learning research infrastructure

October 23, 2017
CI-New: Cognitive Hardware and Software Ecosystem Community Intrastructure (CHASE-CI) MESA Lab is one of the 10 campus participants to this $1M NSF CI grant. We will have much more computing power for big data and deep learning related research. FIONA (Fast I/O Network Appliance) will be ready...

"ME 143: Unmanned Aircraft Systems" approved!

October 20, 2017
ME 143: Unmanned Aircraft Systems   It is offical and regular as of Oct. 19, 2017 approved by UGC. It is to be offered in Summer 2018 and Fall 2018 and so on. As an official, regualr Technical Elective (TE) course in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (ME), it is usually offered...

MESA LAB welcomes new Ph.D. students and new visiting scholars

August 23, 2017
MESA LAB welcomes new Ph.D. students and new Visiting Scholars! New Ph.D. students @ UC Merced: Michael Haoyu Niu, EECS (precision ag, big data, deep learning, sUAS remote sensing/application) Already passed FAA Part 107 exam: http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/dronepilots Jose...

Congratulations to Professor Chen for serving as Section Editor for "Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science"

June 24, 2017
Congratulations to Professor YangQuan Chen for serving as Section Editor for "Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science" It is a great pleasure to announce that, Professor YangQuan Chen was recently appointed as Section Editor (or Volume Editor-in-Chief) for the new volume entitled...

Special Issue on “Control Systems Engineering” published at "CONTROL ENGINERING of CHINA",

June 24, 2017
http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/kzgc Professor Chen Guest Co-edited a Special Issue on “Control Systems Engineering” at Control Engineering of China. More details can be found in the above link. Created 6/24/2017

[IEEE/CAA J.Autom.Sinica] Special Issues on Fractional Order Systems and Controls

May 18, 2017
[IEEE/CAA J.Autom.Sinica] Special Issues on Fractional Order Systems and Controls guest coedited by Dr. Chen are all published and available here. http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/jas-si-fosc [with all local PDFs, BiBTeX, single volumn PDF, abstract booklet] Other special issues published...

International Journal of Control special issue guest coedited by Dr. Chen published

May 18, 2017
International Journal of Control special issue on "Applied Fractional calculus in Modelling, Analysis and Design of Control Systems" published http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcon20/90/6 vol. 90, issue 6. Editorial Special issue: applied fractional calculus in...

Intel donated MESA Lab 12 Intel Aero RTF drones

May 4, 2017
Intel donated MESA Lab 12 Intel Aero RTF drones We are very pleased to announce that MESA Lab just received total 12 Intel Aero RTF (ready to fly) drones for ME190 UAS course and MESA Lab UAS research purposes. This signifies the recognition of our UAS4STEM effort. For more information about our...

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