News

02/22/20

• AirCRAFT Lab was at the St. Louis Science Center with Drone demos and Obstacle courses...Busy day!!!

AirCRAFT Lab Alum Sarah Plunkett receives the Oliver Parks Award for 2020! Congratulations Sarah, we are so proud of you!!!

AirCRAFT Lab Alum Matthew Dreyer starts a new position at Lockheed-Martin! Congratulations Matt, we are so proud of you!!!

The "SLUAV" AUVSI team was at the TEDx Conference at UMSL on October 27!

09/26/2017 - Dr. Gururajan presented the paper titled "Development of a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) for Intuitive Drone Operations" at the 2017 SAE AeroTech Conference and Exhibition in Ft. Worth, Texas

09/26/2017 - Federico Garcia Lorca presented on his research work titled "Parametric analysis of clustering algorithms for the generation of pilot performance profiles" at the 2017 SAE AeroTech Conference and Exhibition in Ft. Worth, Texas

08/28/2017 - Congratulations to everyone (Andrew Hoelscher, Matt Dreyer, Willis Elkins, Fede Garcia, Joe O'Neill, Ryan Clabots) for your accepted abstract to 2018 AIAA SciTech

06/26/2017 - Dr. Gururajan was nominated and selected to serve as the Program Chair - Elect (for 2018 conference). Dr. Gururajan will serve as the Program Chair for the 2019 conference (nominated by Ben Latigo and approved by unanimous consent)

06/26/2017 - Dr. Gururajan presented his paper titled "Feedback reinforcement of classroom learning of aerospace design and performance concepts through a hands-on design-build-fly-redesign loop" at the A2017 ASEE Conference and Exposition, Columbus, OH

06/13/17-06/19/2017 - 2016-17 AUVSI team "SLUviators" compete in the competition at Pax River Naval Air Station - Good Luck!!!!

05/16/2017 - Computer Science students Nick Anderson, Joey Gao and Eric Whitman win 2017 "Best Capstone Project" in the department of computer science for the "VR Drone operator" project - Congratulations!!!!

01/18/2017 - Matthew Dreyer was awarded the CURE scholarship to pursue (no pun intended) research on Pursuit Evasion using Quadcopters - Congratulations!!!!