AVL Research

Specific research interests of the faculty and students involved in the lab include:

• Autonomous guidance, navigation, and collision avoidance
• Flapping, rotary, and fixed wing flight mechanics, stability and control
• Bio-inspired sensing, processing, and locomotion
• Microsystem mechanics, stability, and control
• Integration of embedded hardware/software systems
• Adaptive learning and control
• Path planning and autonomous decision
• Fault detection and system reconfiguration
• Adaptive and morphing structural wing concepts
• Low-power, lightweight sensors for autonomous navigation
• Reconfigurable autopilot design, integration, and testing
• Expendable UAV autopilot integration and testing

Faculty and students of the AVL work closely with members from the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, the Morpheus Laboratory, the Composites Research Laboratory and the Space Systems Laboratory.