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Faculty
Faculty
Assistant Professor, McKnight Land-Grant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
University of Minnesota
126 Akerman Hall
110 Union St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: rcaverly@umn.edu
Phone: (612) 625-2540
Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Students
Robert Halverson
Robert Halverson
September 2021 - present
Project: Simultaneous System Identification and Predictive Control for Entry, Descent, and Landing in Uncertain Environments
Co-advised with Prof. Gebre-Egziabher
DoD SMART Scholarship, Aug. 2022 to Aug. 2026
Keegan Bunker
Keegan Bunker
January 2022 - present
Project: Dynamic Modeling of the Cable-Actuated Bio-inspired Lightweight Elastic Solar Sail (CABLESSail)
Logan Anderson
Logan Anderson
August 2022 - present
Project: System Identification and Robust Control of Deployable Space Structures using Dissipativity Properties
NASA NSTGRO Fellowship, Aug. 2023 to Aug. 2027
Soojeong Lee
Soojeong Lee
September 2022 - present
Project: State Estimation and Control of the Cable-Actuated Bio-inspired Lightweight Elastic Solar Sail (CABLESSail)
Erik Lehner
Erik Lehner
September 2022 - present
Project: Robust Control of Hard Disk Drives
Ping-Yen Shen
Ping-Yen Shen
August 2023 - present
Project: Solar Sail Attitude Control and Momentum Management Using Model Predictive Control
Minsen Yuan
Minsen Yuan
May 2024 - present
Project: Multi-Agent Path Optimization
Co-advised with Prof. Yu
Master's Students
Master's Students
Konner Brickey
Konner Brickey
May 2025 - present
Project: Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Cable-Driven Spacecraft Motion Simulator
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Michael States
Michael States
January 2023 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication & CABLESSail Hardware Design
Nathan Gall
Nathan Gall
May 2023 - present
Project: Areostationary Mars Orbit Station Keeping Using Model Predictive Control
Henry Mahnke
Henry Mahnke
January 2024 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Shaumik Kalwit
Shaumik Kalwit
September 2024 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Dhruva Pingale
Dhruva Pingale
September 2024 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Gavin Fuhr
Gavin Fuhr
September 2024 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Harrison Mantsch
Harrison Mantsch
September 2024 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Tyler Depies
Tyler Depies
September 2024 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Ziggy Kearns
Ziggy Kearns
September 2024 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Tatum Bennet Etzell
Tatum Bennet Etzell
September 2024 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Michael Zewdie
Michael Zewdie
January 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Brenen Olsen
Brenen Olsen
February 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Ahmed Raqib
Ahmed Raqib
February 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Keegan Heyl
Keegan Heyl
February 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Daniel Dimitrov
Daniel Dimitrov
February 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Chelsea Ofori
Chelsea Ofori
March 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Kale Brattin
Kale Brattin
March 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Kentin LeBeau
Kentin LeBeau
March 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Leo Ruhland
Leo Ruhland
April 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Varsha Balaji
Varsha Balaji
April 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Vivek Suthram
Vivek Suthram
April 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Annu Malarvannan
Annu Malarvannan
April 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Aiden White
Aiden White
April 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Aaron Lam
Aaron Lam
April 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell
April 2025 - present
Project: Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Design and Fabrication
Lab Alumni
Lab Alumni
Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Students
Vinh Nguyen
Vinh Nguyen
September 2020 - May 2025
Project: Pose Estimation and Passivity-Based Control of Over-Actuated Flexible Robots
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award, Jun. 2022 to May 2025
Sze Kwan (Jason) Cheah
Sze Kwan (Jason) Cheah
September 2019 - September 2024
Dissertation: Robust Local Stabilization and State Estimation of Nonlinear Systems using Quadratic Constraints and Convex Optimization
UMII-MnDRIVE Graduate Assistantship Award, Jan. 2023 to Aug. 2024
Alex Hayes
Alex Hayes
August 2018 - December 2023
UMII-MnDRIVE Graduate Assistantship Award, Jan. 2022 to Aug. 2023
Liam Elke
Liam Elke
September 2019 - September 2023
Dissertation: Dynamic Modeling for Simulation and Experimentation Tools Used in the Analysis of Space Vehicle Trajectories
Co-advised with Prof. Gebre-Egziabher
NASA Training Grant Fellowship, Sep. 2019 to Sep. 2023
Manash Chakraborty
Manash Chakraborty
September 2018 - November 2022
Dissertation: Controller Design and Analysis of Dual-Stage Hard Disk Drives in the Presence of Micro-Actuator Stroke Limitation
Master's Students
Master's Students
Nathan Raab
Nathan Raab
May 2022 - August 2023
Ping-Yen Shen
Ping-Yen Shen
October 2018 - August 2020
Thesis: Dynamic Modeling and Passivity-Based Control of a 2 DOF Tower Crane with a Flexible Hoist Cable
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Ryan Levendusky, January 2022 - May 2025
Feodor Blinnikov, August 2023 - May 2025
Michael Dallalah, October 2022 - May 2025
Caden Pankratz, November 2024 - May 2025
Daniel Tereshko, February 2024 - May 2025
Dan Do, January 2024 - May 2025
Charles Rogan, September 2024 - December 2024
Austin Bodin, August 2021 - December 2021 and August 2022 - May 2024 (Honors thesis)
Ethan Kolby, January 2023 - May 2024 (Honors thesis)
Niko Sexton, May 2023 - May 2024
Chris Thacker, October 2022 - May 2024
Ryleigh McGiveron, December 2022 - December 2023
James Johnson, May 2023 - December 2023
Will Roslansky, February 2023 - August 2023
Sam Prokott, August 2022 - May 2023
Jamie Lyman, March 2022 - May 2023 (Honors thesis)
Gabriel Lundin, March 2022 - May 2023 (Honors thesis)
Logan Anderson, May 2021 - August 2022
Neel Puri, May 2019 - June 2022 (UROP Award Spring 2022)
Samir Patel, January 2020 - May 2022 (MSROP Award Summer 2021, UROP Award Fall 2021)
Anahita Eshgetorki, January 2022 - May 2022 (URS Spring 2022)
Justin Dang, August 2021 - December 2021
Tyler Douglas, January 2020 - August 2021
Robert Halverson, January 2019 - May 2021 (UROP Award Spring 2020 & Spring 2021)
Julia Schatz, September 2020 - May 2021 (Honors Thesis)
Gabriel Sanchez, January 2020 - May 2021 (Honors Thesis)
Jacob Brown, January 2019 - January 2021 (UROP Award Spring 2020)
David Sundvold, January 2020 - August 2020
Vinh Nguyen, August 2019 - August 2020
John-Paul Heinzen, January 2020 - May 2020
Josh Mays, January 2020 - May 2020
Tianxu Qin, September 2019 - December 2019
Casey Carlson, August 2019 - August 2019
Jacob Wagner, May 2019 - August 2019
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