Our research on advanced air mobility, including control, path planning, safety verification, and certification, was well featured in recent AIAA SciTech Forum. Very proud of our outstanding team, including collaborators, postdocs, students and alumni!

Publications:
- Banik, S., Kim, J., Hovakimyan, N., Carlone, L., Thomas, J., & Leveson, N. G. (2025). Integrating Vision Systems and STPA for Robust Landing and Take-Off in VTOL Aircraft. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 1324).
- Kim, J., Bullock, J. L., Cheng, S., & Hovakimyan, N. (2025). Smooth Reference Command Generation and Control for Transition Flight of VTOL Aircraft Using Time-Varying Optimization. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 1123).
- Bullock, J. L., Song, L., Puthumanaillam, G., Li, Y., Cheng, S., Ornik, M., Mitra, S., & Hovakimyan, N. (2025). Verification of a Collision Avoidance Controller for a Lift+ Cruise Vehicle. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 1323).
- Kim, M., Cheng, S., & Hovakimyan, N. (2025). Autotuning the Unified Control and Generalized Control Allocation for VTOL Vehicles Using DiffTune. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 1122).
- Bullock, J., Trujillo, A., Cheng, S., & Hovakimyan, N. (2025). Robust Path-Following Controller for Multirotor Vehicles in Uncertain Wind Conditions. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 1121).
- Bansal, A., Wang, D., Yeghiazaryan, M., Li, Y., Tao, C., Yoon, H. J., Arora, P., Papachristos, C., Voulgaris, P., Mitra, S., Sha, L., & Hovakimyan, N. (2025). Verification and Validation of a Vision-Based Landing System for Autonomous VTOL Air Taxis. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 1322).
- Rasul, A., Tasnim, H., Yoon, H. J., Bansal, A., Wang, D., Hovakimyan, N., Sha, L., & Voulgaris, P. (2025). Bayesian Data Augmentation and Training for Perception DNN in Autonomous Aerial Vehicles. In AIAA SciTech 2025 Forum (p. 0933).