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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...

MESA Lab welcomes new Visiting Scholars Prof. Dr. Jiacai Huang, Prof. Dr. Zhigang Lian and Mr. Xiaobao Jia

March 2, 2014
MESA Lab welcomes three new Visiting Scholars: Prof. Dr. Jiacai Huang, Prof. Dr. Zhigang Lian and Mr. Xiaobao Jia. Details of their research topics at MESA LAB and their publications are briefly listed below. Dr. Jiacai Huang, Visiting Professor, March 2014-Sept. 2014. Topic @ MESA LAB: Fractional...

MESA LAB showcased drones in the Drone Conference hosted by Southwestern Law School

March 2, 2014
MESA Lab Ph.D. student Brendan Smith was invited to showcase drones at the Drone Conference hosted by Southwestern Law School. Using Drones in the News and Entertainment Industries: The Legal and Regulatory Issues Friday, February 7, 2014 Southwestern Campus 9:00 a.m. - 4:40 p.m. Reception...

IFAC World Congress 2014 accepted MESA Lab's contributions

March 2, 2014
IFAC World Congress Accepted Contributions   Number Type of submission Authors or proposers Title Profile Status 1114 Contributed regular paper Chun Yin, YangQuan Chen*, Shouming Zhong (46997, 14519, 43497)  Robust stability...

MESA LAB water data drone featured in CITRIS Newsletter

February 17, 2014
Article title: Elevated Research: Peaceful Apps for a New Generation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (PDF form) http://citris-uc.org/elevated-research-peaceful-apps-for-a-new-generation-of-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-2/ CITRIS: The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society...

Austin M. Jensen's visit to MESA Lab and his SNRI Invited Seminar

February 17, 2014
The Head of AggieAir Flying Circus (AAFC) Austin M. Jensen visited MESA LAB in UC Merced's Castle Research Facility on Feb. 14, 2014 showing his love in seeing AggieAir's multiplying in California's Central Valley. Morning visitors include a team led by Andy Moreno as well as Dr....

10th MESA LAB R&R Symposium and MESA LAB 2013 top 10s

February 17, 2014
The first R&R was on Feb. 9, 2012 started by Brandon Stark, the MESA LAB MANAGER. The 10th MESA LAB R&R Symposium held on Feb. 8, 2014 from 2-6PM. Details can be found here. The event flyer is here. Dr. Chen announced the MESA LAB 2013 top 10s as follows: Top 10 DRONE News of MESA LAB @...

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