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About Me

I have a new lab website: http://intsyslab.org/

Here is my updated personal website: https://loganbeaver.com

I am an assistant professor at Old Dominion University in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Previously I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Systems Engineering at Boston University. I completed my PhD in 2022 while working on decentralized control of multi-agent systems in the Information and Decision Laboratory at the University of Delaware. I earned my MS in 2017 in the Shock Physics Laboratory at Marquette University, where I studied computational design and optimization of energetic devices. I completed my BS in mechanical engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 2015, with a concentration on dynamics and controls and a minor in mathematics.

This website is not updated frequently, but it has a page for my CV and list of publications, and a sample cooperative multi-agent systems course that I designed. My links area at the bottom of this page, and I can generally be reached at: lebeaver {at} udel {dot} edu.

News

July 25th, 2024: I am now an assistant professor at Old Dominion University, my new lab website is https://intsyslab.org/
January 19th, 2023: Our article, Constraint-Driven Optimal Control for Emergent Swarming and Predator Avoidance, has been accepted to ACC 2023.
October 27, 2022: I presented our article at DTPI 2022, where we received the best paper award.
September 24, 2022: Our article, A Digital Smart City for Emerging Mobility Systems, has been accepted to IEEE DTPI 2022
June 16, 2022: Our article, A Scalable Last-Mile Delivery Service: From Simulation to Scaled Experiment, has been accepted to ITSC 2022.
June 6, 2022: I will be presenting our L-CSS article Constraint-Driven Control of Multiagent Systems: A Highway Platooning Case Study at the 2022 American Control Conference in Atlanta, GA.
May 13, 2022: I have successfully defended my dissertation, Emergence via Constrained Optimization: Analysis and Experiments with Constraint-Driven Flocking.
April 1, 2022: I am giving a contributed talk, Constraint-Driven Control for Multi-Agent Systems, at the SIAM East Coast Optimization Meeting 2022.
March 21, 2022: Our manuscript, Constraint-Driven Optimal Control for Emergent Swarming and Predator Avoidance, is available on ArXiv and is under review for the 2022 CDC and L-CSS.
Sept. 14, 2021: We have submitted two manuscripts to ICRA 2022, one with an MSR student and the other with two rising juniors from the K-12 outreach program.
July 1, 2021: I have been awarded a travel grant by SIAM to attend CT21, DM21, and OP21.
June 21, 2021: The UD K-12 outreach program starts this week, our lab has 6 high school, 3 undergraduate, and and 2 new master's students starting research this summer.
June 2, 2021: Our abstract, Toward Analytical Solutions of Constraint-Driven Optimal Planning Problems, has been accepted for oral presentation at the SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications (CT21). This talk will summarize our ongoing collaborative efforts with ARL.
April 17, 2021: Our article, An Overview on Optimal Flocking, is live on Science Direct.
March 15, 2021: Our article, An Overview on Optimal Flocking, has been accepted for publication in Annual Reviews in Control.
Jan. 25, 2021: Our article, Energy-Optimal Motion Planning for Agents: Barycentric Motion and Collision Avoidance Constraint, has been accepted to the 2021 American Control Conference.
Jan. 9, 2021: Our article, Optimal Time Trajectory and Coordination for Connected and Automated Vehicles, is available online.
Nov. 29, 2020: Our article, Optimal Time Trajectory and Coordination for Connected and Automated Vehicles, has been accepted for publication in Automatica.
Oct. 24, 2020: Behdad and myself finished in the 90th percentile (351/3701) in the IEEEXtreme programming competition!
Sept. 29, 2020: Our paper, Zero-Shot Autonomous Vehicle Policy Transfer: From Simulation to Real-World Via Adversarial Learning, is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE ICCA 2020.
July 15, 2020: Our paper, Beyond Reynolds, a Constraint-Driven Approach to Cluster Flocking, has been accepted to CDC 2020.
May 22, 2020: Our paper, Zero-Shot Autonomous Vehicle Policy Transfer: From Simulation to Real-World via Adversarial Learning, has been accepted to ICCA 2020.
May 7, 2020: Our paper, A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Social Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles has been accepted to ITSC 2020.
April 22, 2020: I have received the Graduate Student Achievement Award by the mechanical engineering department at UD.
April 20, 2020: I have been awarded the Graduate Scholar Award for the 2020-2021 academic year.
April 1, 2020: Our paper, Experimental Validation of a Real-Time Optimal Controller for Coordination of CAVs in a Multi-Lane Roundabout has been accepted to the 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
March 6, 2020: Our paper, An Energy-Optimal Framework for Assignment and Trajectory Generation in Teams of Autonomous Agents, has been accepted for publication in System & Control Letters.
Jan. 16, 2020: Our paper, An Optimal Control Approach to Flocking, has been accepted to the 2020 American Control Conference.
Dec. 11, 2019: I presented A Decentralized Control Framework for Energy-Optimal Goal Assignment and Trajectory Generation at the 58th Conference on Decision and Control.
Nov. 8, 2019: Our paper, Demonstration of a Time-Efficient Mobility System Using a Scaled Smart City, has been accepted for publication in a special issue of the Vehicle System Dynamics Journal.
Aug. 13, 2019: The clip by NBC10 was nominated twice at the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards!
July 15, 2019: Our collaborators at UC Berkeley presented our paper, Simulation to scaled city: zero-shot policy transfer for traffic control via autonomous vehicles, at ICCPS2019.
March 27, 2019: I was part of a segment by NBC10 on our research group, and impact of our research in general.

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