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-...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 @...
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...
January 26, 2014
Dr. Guimei Zhang earned her Ph.D. in 2006 from NWPU, China. She is a full professor in Institute of Computer Vision, Nanchang
Hangkong University, since 2011. Her research ares are in
Image segmentation theory and method, including extraction surface defection using Otsu algorithm based on...
January 26, 2014
It is exciting to announce that UC MERCED MESA LAB has obainted FAA CoA!
According to this Map of Domestic Drone Authorizations:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=214769660919529725423.0004bde31d74fe6eb1ece
we probably are number 1 in UC system in terms of approved (not applied) FAA...
