HALFWAY TO THE 2025 AIAA FELLOWS INDUCTION CEREMONY AND DINNER, AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES DIVISION (TAD) MEETING Looking forward to congratulating the new AIAA Fellows and attending the TAD meeting in May 2025! This year I celebrated with new Fellows Lesley Weitz and Mehran Mesbahi, together with Eli Livne. I also enjoyed interfacing with Jacqueline O'Connor and Angie Lander after the TAD meeting. Looking forward to next year's events! #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai
Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL)
研究服务
College Station，TX 745 位关注者
People, Innovation, Excellence
关于我们
We utilize the Theory-Computation-Experiment paradigm to research Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Technology (LCAAT) with autonomy to establish trust, providing a game changing capability that transforms the way manned and unmanned air, space, and ground systems are designed, controlled, and operated to effectively accomplish missions and tasks. VSCL is thus focused on synergistic strategies for the analysis, control, validation & verification of complex autonomous vehicle and sensor systems operating in challenging environments. We conduct basic and applied research in the areas of: Autonomous and nonlinear control of cyber-physical air, space and ground systems Artificial Intelligence and multi-agent systems Air vehicle control and management Vision based sensors and navigation systems Advanced cockpit/UAS systems and displays Control of Bio-nano materials and structures Our Work Encompasses: Analysis, Design, Modeling, Simulation, and Control Vehicle, Hardware, and Software prototyping Testing Piloted, Remotely Piloted, Optionally Piloted, Operator evaluations The Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory is directed by Dr. John Valasek.
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https://vscl.tamu.edu/
Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL)的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 研究服务
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- College Station，TX
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- 教育机构
- 创立
- 1995
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Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL)员工
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John Valasek
Professor and Director, Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory
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Erin Swansen
PhD Student at Texas A&M University
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Christopher Leshikar
Graduate Research Assistant in the Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory, Texas A&M University
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Hannah Lehman
Research and Development Intern at Sandia National Laboratories
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VSCL ALUMNI RECOGNIZED FOR CODING EXPERTISE Very proud of you Mia Brown! https://lnkd.in/gF3wHViy
We love seeing the #BlackAtNASA trend! ?? At Girls Who Code, we’ve seen firsthand the impact positive representation can have on our students. Check out how these Black women are making major waves at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. bit.ly/4cAAHyf Mia Brown attended Texas A&M University and got her B.S. in Computer Engineering, minoring in math and cybersecurity. Brown currently works on the Robotics Flight Control team for the International Space Station. She also previously worked at Dell Technologies in cybersecurity. Alexandria Perryman graduated from Full Sail University with an Associate of Science. Perryman was previously on academic probation but ended up graduating with honors and later worked for NASA as an Audio Engineer, and won an Emmy for this work in 2019. Perryman has amassed a TikTok following of over 300K where she inspires other women in STEM to overcome obstacles and retells her story of going from academic probation to working at NASA. Mejean Cline is a Software Engineer and Configuration Management Analyst at NASA. Growing up, she dreamed of becoming an engineer but put off attending school for financial reasons. After having kids, motherhood inspired her to pursue her dreams of science and tech. Mejean struggled to balance raising kids while keeping up with school. She would often have to bring her children to class with her and experienced financial struggles and homelessness while in undergrad. However, with the support of her university, she was able to persevere and graduate with a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Houston. Mejean currently works on the Station Support Computing team, which updates and supports all of the computer systems on the International Space Station. Stay tuned and subscribe to our newsletter to learn more about inspiring women making waves in STEM. https://bit.ly/35MAuKI
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PROUD OF MY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT I am pleased to announce that my Senior Undergraduate Research Assistant Seth Johnson has accepted an Autonomy & Real-Time Planning Intern position for Summer 2025, working with Begum Senses Cannataro at Draper. Besides conducting autonomy research in the Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL), Seth previously had a 2023 summer internship at VectorNav Technologies where he was mentored by Jeremy Davis, and a 2024 University Summer Research Grant (USRG) in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering, working with me on a reinforcement learning environment to realistic simulations for multi-agent system validation and deployment. Seth will be presenting a paper on his summer research at the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum. Congratulations, Seth! #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai
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Hosting Dr. Danette Allen in the Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory and the Bush Combat Development Complex Senior Leader (SL) for Autonomous Systems at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Danette Allen visited the Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL) to learn about our air vehicle and space vehicle autonomy research, and to tour the 2,300 acre test facility of the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex. Danette shared with us the Envisioned Future Priorities that provides a picture of the future to be achieved for each capability area, an assessment of where state-of-the-art is for that envisioned future, and what the long-term and near-term plan is to close the gap between the envisioned future and the current state. It was aloha shirt day in the lab. ?? #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai
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Inviting You to Attend Aerospace Control and Guidance Systems Committee Meeting #133 Since 1957 the mission of the ACGSC is to provide a forum for discussion, development, and rapid dissemination of technical information related to aerospace control and guidance systems.?Specific interests include system concept definition, theoretical design and analysis techniques; requirements and specifications; engineering design and development; systems and vehicle integration; and systems operation and maintenance.?Our mission is facilitated through our semi-annual educational meetings and conferences which are open to all. The 2.5 day meetings are normally held near an aerospace company or an aerospace museum with an external event, as shown in the photos from Meeting #132 in Salt Lake City, UT with Kevin Wise, John Valasek, Marc Bodson, Haithem Taha, Eugene Lavretsky, and Heather Hussain. Meeting #133 will be held 20-22 Nov 2024 in Asheville, NC. The Cambria hotel has sustained no damage or impacts to operations. They are confident that they will be able to host our meeting as planned. To see abstracts and agendas from prior meetings visit https://acgsc.org/ to get more information and to register to attend. #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai
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VSCL Alumni Profile: Shelby Hackett Shelby Hackett joined NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a guidance & control engineer in 2022 and worked on the validation and verification (V&V) of the guidance, navigation, & control subsystem of the Europa Clipper spacecraft (that just launched on 14 October!).?This work has included procedure development and execution on both simulation and hardware testbeds for the spacecraft’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU), testbed shakeout, and ‘tiger team’ efforts that focused on off-nominal stressing cases for the SRU.?Now that Clipper has launched and is on its way to Jupiter, Shelby is aiding in the V&V effort for the next in-flight software update for the spacecraft.?Recently, she has also helped lead a team in testbed work to perform hardware-in-the-loop testing of a map relative localization algorithm for use on potential future Mars helicopter projects. Shelby joined Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL) in Fall 2020 after graduating Summa Cum Laude from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida, and after doing a summer internship at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). With VSCL Shelby conducted research on “Tightly Integrated Navigation and Guidance for Multiple Autonomous Agents” under sponsorship of SNL. Shelby graduated with a Master of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering in 2022. #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai
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Center for Autonomous Air Mobility & Sensing (CAAMS) Summer Industry Advisory Board Meeting The Center for Autonomous Air Mobility & Sensing meeting was hosted by Jeffery Saunders and Aurora Flight Sciences in Cambridge, MA, and included a tour of Draper.? Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL) researchers Halle Vandersloot, Cassie-Kay McQuinn, and John Valasek are shown with Vice President of Engineering at VectorNav Technologies Jeremy Davis; Air Force Research Laboratory researchers Isaac Weintraub, David Casebeer, Adrienne Dorr; and VSCL alumni Dipanjan Saha. The VSCL project is "Integration of System Theory with Machine Learning Tools for Data Driven System Identification" and is conducted in collaboration with Puneet Singla and Randy Beard. #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai
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VSCL Alumni Profile: Vinicius Goecks ? Dr. Vinicius G. Goecks is a leading expert in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, focusing on human-AI partnerships. Working at the Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL) at Texas A&M University Department of Aerospace Engineering and graduating in 2019, he developed the Cycle-of-Learning framework, which allow non-technical personnel to adapt autonomous systems in real-time through various forms of human interaction. Currently, as a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Dr. Goecks created COA-GPT, a technology that transforms military Command and Control by using large language models to accelerate the military decision-making process (MDMP) during mission planning. Dr. Goecks has fostered strong collaborations between Texas A&M University College of Engineering and ARL, contributing to safer and more reliable AI systems that enhance human capabilities rather than replace them. ? #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai
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Humans Teaching AI to Learn Faster by Interventions in Real-Time The Cycle-of-Learning (CoL) framework developed by Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL) and U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory accelerates AI training by combining human demonstrations with real-time interventions. Initially, a human guides the AI through a task, like helping an unmanned vehicle land. Then, as the AI attempts the task autonomously, the human steps in when it deviates, incorporating these corrections into the AI’s training data. This approach focuses on specific areas of difficulty, reducing the overall data required and allowing non-technical users to refine AI behavior without programming. By creating a continuous learning loop, CoL enables autonomous systems to rapidly develop complex skills in dynamic environments from human interaction. Technical details in the AAAI research paper by Vinicius G. Goecks, Greg Gremillion, Vernon Lawhern, John Valasek, and Nick Waytowich: https://lnkd.in/gwyVxreF #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai #arl
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University of Maryland - 2024 Invited Seminar #2 A big Thank You to Jared Grauer and Umberto Saetti, PhD and the faculty, staff, and students in the University of Maryland Department of Aerospace Engineering.?Last week they hosted me for my talk "Multiple-Time-Scale Nonlinear Output Feedback Control of Systems With Model Uncertainties". It was a great visit and I enjoyed meeting John Martin and Derek Paley, and the laboratory demos and meeting the students of Yancy Diaz-Mercado, Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira, Umberto Saetti, and Chris Cadou.?A campus tour and sharing service activities with the student officers of the Sigma Gamma Tau chapter was a highlight.?Thank you for a great visit to your department! #vscl #tamu #TAMUengr #aiaaistc #autonomousvehicles #drones #aerospaceengineering #autonomous #autonomy #intelligentsystems #uas #drones #autonomoussystems #reinforcementlearning #aiaa #validation #machinelearning #ai
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