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Merced River Fair

June 3, 2013
At the Merced River Fair we provided outreach to the ecological science community as well as the general public by showing many of the functions unmanned aerial systems can perform in an agricultural or ecological setting. The main display was the AquaCopter, a waterproof quad-rotor perfect for...

MESA Lab in the News

June 2, 2013
Making Headlines Dr. YangQuan Chen and Brandon Stark made some news this past week while attending the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 13).   http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/drone-scientists-hope-change-public-image-124633937.html http://news.yahoo.com/blogs...

The 4th Robots and Ribs

June 2, 2013
6/1/2013, the 4th Robots and Ribs (R&R) is held successfully in MESA Lab. Click the link bellow to see more.

MESA LAB welcomes visitor: Michal Podhradsky, CSOIS, Dept. of ECE, Utah State University (seminar info included)

May 21, 2013
May 23rd, 2013, 2-3PM @ MESA LAB, Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab,4225 N. Hospital Rd., Atwater, CA 95301. T:209-2284398 Contact: Professor YangQuan Chen, Email: yqchen@ieee.org Title: Battery Model-Based Thrust Controller for a Small, Low Cost Multirotor Unmanned...

MESA LAB welcomes new member: Mr. Taizhi Lyu

May 6, 2013
MESA LAB welcomes new member: Mr. Taizi Lyu. Taizhi will arrive May 10th and stay for one year as an exchange Ph.D. student. His home university is Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. Research interests: SLAM(simultaneous localization and mapping); Multi-sensor Data...

3rd Robots and Ribs (R&R = Research&Related in grants.gov)

April 23, 2013
Apr/20/2013 (Saturday), the 3rd Robots and Ribs (R&R = Research&Related in grants.gov) monthly envent was held successfully in MESA Lab. We have more robots this time, and of course, more ribs! 53 attendants.

MESA LAB welcomes German visitor: Tobias Fromm

April 17, 2013
MESA LAB welcomes Mr. Tobias Fromm, Ph.D. student, Robotics Group, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. His MEAM Graduate Seminar info (4/19/2013, 2-3PM, Friday, room SE1-138) Title: Intelligent Robots For The Win: Selected Topics in Applied Machine Learning  Abstract:  For various...

Theme Issue published @ Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

April 11, 2013
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1990.toc Theme Issue published @ Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Theme Issue ‘Fractional calculus and its applications’ compiled and edited by Changpin Li, YangQuan...

MESA LAB member's story: Engineering a Garden Takes a Campus Community

April 11, 2013
Congratulations to Peter Ferrell! MESA LAB member's story: Engineering a Garden Takes a Campus Community  

MESA LAB welcomes new member: Dr. Prof. Jiaguo Liu

April 11, 2013
Dr. Jiaguo Liu arrived today from Shandong University. He will be visiting MESA LAB for one year. Dr. Liu's expertise is on fractional calculus and its applications. Dr. Liu will work with Dr. Chen closely on fractional order mechanics. We will offer ME280 "Fractional Order Mechanics...

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