MSU Robotics and Control Advancing knowledge, technologies, and quality of life News Dr. Tan Elected Next Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics August 21, 2024Dr. Xiaobo Tan has been elected the next Editor-in-Chief for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), with his term officially starting in January 2026. TMECH is a top journal in mechatronics, with a current impact factor of 6.1. It is a Q1 (first quartile) journal in all categories of Manufacturing Engineering, Automation and Control Systems, Mechanical Engineering, and … Dr. Tan Elected Next Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Read More »... Read more...Smart panel offering potential solution to invasive sea lamprey control August 5, 2024A team of Michigan State University researchers, including a behavioral ecologist and two engineers, has been commissioned by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) to develop a pioneering selective fish barrier in Traverse City over the next decade. This barrier, called FishPass, aims to be a revolutionary solution for invasive species control. The objective is … Smart panel offering potential solution to invasive sea lamprey control Read More »... Read more...Dr. Tan leads National Science Foundation Research Traineeship program award on Big Data Water Science September 26, 2023Tan leads the NRT program that will produce a highly competent workforce with the broad technological, scientific, and cultural skills needed to address current and future water challenges. Through focused effort on broadening participation in this critical area, students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds will be trained to become successful research and policy … Dr. Tan leads National Science Foundation Research Traineeship program award on Big Data Water Science Read More »... Read more...Drs. Kiumarsi and Modares receive NSF Grant on Safe Learning-enabled Control System DesignAugust 22, 2023Bahare Kiumarsi, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in collaboration with Hamidreza Modares, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, received a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation entitled “Data-efficient Safe Control with Recovery-to-Optimality Guarantees.” This fund will be used to develop low-complexity, safe learning-enabled algorithms for partially observable systems … Drs. Kiumarsi and Modares receive NSF Grant on Safe Learning-enabled Control System Design Read More »... Read more...Sandeep Banik and Shaunak D. Bopardikar receive Best Paper AwardJune 30, 2023A paper entitled “FlipDyn: A game of resource takeovers in dynamical systems” was selected as the 2023 IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy’s Best Student Paper Award. The paper was co-authored by Sandeep Banik (a graduate student) and Shaunak D. Bopardikar, Assistant Professor, ECE Department at MSU. The paper’s citation is given below: Sandeep … Sandeep Banik and Shaunak D. Bopardikar receive Best Paper Award Read More »... Read more...Dr. Tan receives NSF grant on active learning for robotsApril 30, 2023Rapid developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence in recent years have greatly advanced perception capabilities and thus the level of autonomy for machines, as evidenced by great strides made in autonomous vehicles and aerial drones over the last decade. These successes are due to advances in computing hardware and large datasets for training learning … Dr. Tan receives NSF grant on active learning for robots Read More »... Read more...Dr. Shaunak D. Bopardikar wins prestigious NSF CAREER AwardFebruary 28, 2023Shaunak D. Bopardikar, an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will use a five-year $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award to create an integrated research and education program that will focus on the pressing need to make mobile dynamical systems, including autonomous vehicles, resilient – guaranteeing that they achieve their promised benefits, even under sensing, … Dr. Shaunak D. Bopardikar wins prestigious NSF CAREER Award Read More »... Read more... See All News