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ICUAS14 Tutorial: Emerging sUAS Technology for Precision Agriculture Applications (AgDroneTech14)

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/...

Dr. Chen gave lightening talk at UC Berkeley Workshop on Groundtruth and Airwaves: Sensor Networks and Emerging Technology for Environmental Journalism

May 13, 2014
http://citris-uc.org/event/groundtruth-and-airwaves-sensor-networks-and-emerging-technology-for-environmental-journalism-apr-30/ Dr. Chen's recorded talk: The Era of Robotic Environmental Co-Journalists  

AFC (Applied Fractional Calculus) Workshop Series started 04/21/2014

May 13, 2014
http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/AFC We target 100 seminars per year on AFC! Our research page on AFC is at http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/research/applied-fractional-calculus

MESA Lab at the Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve

May 2, 2014
Dedication Ceremony for the Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve The MESA Lab was invited to be a part of the dedication ceremony for the Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve held on April 30th, 2014.  The 6,500 acre Reserve is home to the most extensive vernal pool landscape in the...

Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASIRobots.com) visits UC Merced and gives a seminar

March 31, 2014
Mel Torrie's ASIRobots made a significant show at the 2014 WorldAgExpo.org where Dr. Chen was deeply impressed! The invited EECS seminar will be a fun and informative seminar on what they have been achieving in the past 14 years. http://www.asirobots.com/ 4/4/14 Fri 12:00-1:00pm @ UC Merced...

Congratulations to Jinlu Han, Calvin Coopmans and Austin Jensen for passing FINAL dissertation defense!

March 31, 2014
Dr. Chen made a trip to Utah State University from 3/23/2014 to 3/26/2014 for the following defenses: March 24, 11:30am-1:00pm, Jinlu Han.  "Cyber-Physical Systems With Multi-Uav Based Cooperative Source Seeking And Contour Mapping" March 24, 3:00pm-5:00pm, Cal Coopmans  ...

Drone Day demo flight at Cosumnes River Preserve 3/28/2014 by UC Merced MESA LAB.

March 31, 2014
Cosumnes River Preserve Drone demo (event flyer). Disclaimer: We were all running under pure RC mode by a human operator, NOT autonomous mode!) Picture (can you see three aircrafts in this photo?). Short movies on our water drone (do you see a joysticked "duck mode"?) Thank you Josh...

MESA LAB recent grants/contracts/gift (CITRIS, UCANR, HSRI, Lam and Margo Souza)

March 8, 2014
MESA LAB recently won some grants and contracts. Congratulations! CITRIS Seed Grant. $60K. "Environmental DNA (eDNA) Smart Sampling Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)." PI: Prof. YangQuan Chen. 2014-2015. Co-PI: Michael Miller of UC Davis. UC ANR Competitive Grant Award No. 13-...

Congratulations to Zhuo Li for passing dissertation proposal defense!

March 8, 2014
Zhuo Li defended his Ph.D. dissertation proposal on Feb. 27, 2014. His committee members include Profs. Stefano Carpin and Gerardo Diaz. His one hour presentation title is "Fractional order MIMO process modeling and control". The committee passed his defense with no reservation. Well done...

Brandon Stark invited as FAA COA application tutorial lecturer for LBNL

March 8, 2014
Based on our previous FAA COA application success at Utah State University (mainly by Austin Jensen), Brandon Stark, Ph.D. student and MESA Lab Manager led the first successful FAA COA application at UC Merced in May 2013. We carefully summarized what we experienced and learned and now we will be...

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