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Congratulations, AIAA UC Merced Student Branch!

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.   2017 News Final...

A history making flight mission of UC Merced's scientific data-drone with RGB, NIR, TIR and SWIR remote sensing payloads

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...

2nd FAA COA approved for MESA Lab's Scientific Data Drone Research!

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....

MADbook site released - (WorldScientific 2014: Modeling, Analysis and Design of Control Systems in MATLAB and Simulink)

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,...

MESA Lab Manager Brandon Stark Will Attend UAS Summit on Challenges and Opportunities on the Road to Integration on June 10th, San Diego.

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...

MESA Lab Manager Brandon Stark Attended FAA UAS COE Public Meeting May 28-29 in Washington DC.

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...

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/...

Fractional Calculus Day at UC Merced 2014 Edition cum The Fourth AFC Workshop @ MESA LAB @ UC MERCED

May 25, 2014
June 2nd, 2014. Fractional Calculus Day at UC Merced 2014 Edition cum The Fourth AFC Workshop (Series) @ MESA LAB @ UC MERCED [Please see event flyer.doc] (Our 2013 FC Day at UC Merced is documented here http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/node/68) 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 FC Day events can be...

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

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