Biologically-derived strategies for engineered autonomy.
Feedback Principles for the Next Generation of Autonomy
Both biological and engineered autonomy share common feedback principles, and unifying mathematical models describing these implementations improve our capability to design safe, autonomous, adaptive systems with robust performance.
News
Spring 2024
Our group led a team to a 3rd place (out of 25 teams) in the MITLL/AIAA Kerbal Space Program Differential Games Challenge.
Our group shared five papers at AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum, covering
System identification of insects in groups through two cross-correlation and direct Laplacian methods
Work from our NASA University Leadership Initiative WINDMAP through an overview, UAV's entrained in vortices, and recursive forms for multi-agent wind field estimation
Fall 2023
Our group shared our orbital debris cleanup work at the AIAA ASCEND conference, the overall mission and the best companion satellite placement
Arif Billah defended his PhD disssertation on "Engineering unmanned aerial robotic collective motions via the science of visually-guided insect swarming."
Spring 2023
Are you going to AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum? We'll see you there. If you're from the GNC community, please join us at the GNC Plenary Lecture Wednesday morning or at any of our technical talks below
Fall 2022:
US Space Force selected our project on orbital debris cleanup.
Five of our papers were accepted to AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum.
Billah: Implicit information transfer via streaker bees in a bio-inspired visual feedback swarm framework
Griffith: System identification of pneumatic dynamics for active flow aircraft
Islam: Model reference adaptive control of experimentally identified honeybee visual tracking dynamics
Patel: Seascape – simple educational autopilot system with c++ architecture & python exterior
Mansy: Tornado localization and structure identification from uav wind measurements
Summer 2022
August: We presented results and appeared as a panelist at the UAS Weather Technology Forum and also at the ONR Science of Autonomy Review in Arlington, VA. Patrick Williams, William Karika, and Nafis Nayeem joined our group as graduate research assistants.
July: Ishriak Ahmed presented Decentralized multi-agent navigation via knee-based multi-objective optimization of potential functions at IFAC ICONS.
June: Prof Faruque gave an invited seminar at UC Boulder on Aerospace Flight Control approaches to Active Flow Configurations, Visual Swarming, and Tornado Physics Identification.
Spring 2022
We hosted Prof Rolf Mueller from Virginia Tech for a seminar on bat sonar and discussion on how it connects to insect swarming
Ishriak Ahmed's paper on how laboratory enclosures affect swarming honeybees is now available at Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
Brandon White's paper on real-time tornado measurements is now published at Atmospheric Measurement Technologies
Arif Billah's Modeling Small-Target Motion Detector Neurons As Switched Systems with Dwell Time Constraints was accepted for the June American Control Conference
Ishriak Ahmed's work on genetic-algorithms for swarming was accepted to the July IFAC ICONS conference
We hosted Patrick Hyun for a seminar on Autonomous Control of Extreme Behaviors in Bio-Inspired Robotics, Daero Lee for a seminar on Spacecraft Attitude Estimation and Control Systems During Close-proximity Operations, and Atanu Halder on Aeromechanics of Cycloidal Rotors
We moved into our new offices on north campus
January 2022
Our team presented 5 papers at AIAA SciTech Forum in San Diego, and won a Best Paper Award. Congratulations Brandon & Ujjval!
Fall 2021
August: Our research was highlighted in the ONR Science of Autonomy Review
September: Atmospheric Measurement Technologies has made a tornadic infrasound preprint available for public discussion
November: We hosted NRL's Aaron Kahn to discuss "minimum complexity autopilots"
December: Christian Coletti defended his MS thesis on active flow control--welcome to our PhD program, Christian!
July: MS defense
Congratulations to Ishriak Ahmed on his successful masters defense! His defense was on "Multi-insect Visual Tracking and System Identification Techniques for Inflight Feedback Interaction Analysis." Welcome to our PhD program, Ishriak!
June: Seminars and MS defense
Our research was highlighted in the ONR Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems Review
Congratulations to Brandon White on his successful masters defense! His defense was on "Measurement and Magnitude Based System Identification of Tornado-Associated Infrasound."
March: Best paper award and IEEE INERTIAL
Congratulations to Brandon White on his "best paper award" in the MS category at AIAA Regional Student Paper Competition for his paper "Preliminary Adaptation of Speech Source Localization Algorithm for Reduced Bandwidth of Interest in Tornadic Infrasound Signals."
Ujjval Patel presented "Sensor fusion to improve state estimate accuracy using multiple inertial measurement units" at IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems (INERTIAL).
January: SICB and AIAA SciTech
Ethan Lane presented in the "best paper award" session on at AIAA SciTech Forum on "Insect in-flight kinematic adjustments during ethanol exposure."
Ishriak Ahmed presented “A high speed visual tracking system for analyzing in-flight insect interactions” at Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology's annual meeting.
Arif Billah presented “A model for multi-agent group motion inspired by insect visuomotor feedback” at Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology's annual meeting.
Brandon White presented “Preliminary Severe Storm Data from a Mobile Infrasound System,” at AIAA SciTech Forum.
Shady Ahmed presented “Nonlinear Filtering for Simultaneous State Correction and Eddy Viscosity Estimation in Computational Fluid Dynamics,” at AIAA SciTech Forum.
December: ASA meeting
Brandon White presented “Infrasound measurement of tornadoes and other severe storm events at close range,” in 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
November: APS-DFD Meeting
A terrific turnout with 38 OKState participants in the 73rd annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting. Two of our infrasound talks were on tornado infrasound measurements and their application to system identification
Sunday night OkState team meeting
September: NASA/DOE Roundtable
We participated in a roundtable on new ways to collaborate with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and DOE Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar, and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's Ranking Member Frank Lucas
Congressman Frank Lucas, Prof Faruque, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
Summer seminars
August: Our research was highlighted in the ONR Science of Autonomy Review
June: Our research was highlighted in the ONR Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems Review
May Storm season
Our infrasound team's new equipment was shared on Ch9 news
April 2020 Awards
Our OSU-led team was selected for a NASA University Leadership Initiative studying Real-time Weather Awareness for Enhanced Safety Assurance in UTM.
Tim Runnels' paper received a 3rd place award at the AIAA Region IV Student Conference.
Ethan Lane’s paper received the conference's 1st place award. Ethan will advance to present his paper at the AIAA 2021 SciTech Forum.
March AIAA Student Conference
2 of our students are presenting papers at the AIAA Region IV Student Conference March 27-28, 2020
February 2020 Graduate research symposium
5 of our graduate students are presenting at the 2020 MAE Graduate Research Symposium on February 28, 2020. Ishriak Ahmed, Christian Coletti, Arif Billah, Saiful Islam, and Ujjval Patel
Summer 2019 Seminars:
Prof Faruque gave invited seminars as a keynote speaker at InfoAg Conference in St Louis and at Technical University of Munich's Flight Systems Dynamics Institute in July 2019.
New building (Nov 2019):
Grand opening for our new Excelsior building.
2019 ONR Young Investigator Award
Prof Faruque received the 2019 ONR Young Investigator Award, which supports our work on insect feedback in groups. Reference: OSU news, ONR list of awardees