People

Present and past members of CoRAL


Director: Dr. He Bai

Experience and Education

Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 2021-present

Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 2015-2021

Senior R&D scientist, UtopiaCompression Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, 2010-2015

Postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2009-2010

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2009

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2007

B.S. in Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 2005

Research Interests

Nonlinear and adaptive control theory and applications in multi-agent systems; Distributed estimation and learning; Navigation, control, and decision making for autonomous systems; Bayesian inference and reinforcement learning.

Contact

he.bai@okstate.edu

Graduate

Kinjal Bhar

Interests: distributed sampling methods, multi-agent systems, Bayesian inference techniques

Nahid Uzzaman

Interests: Control theory, Estimation, Machine Learning.

Sanzida Hossain

Interests: Control theory, Autonomous vehicle and assistive driving, Machine Learning.

Shahbaz P Qadri Syed

Interests: Planning, Control as inference, Multiagent systems

Undergraduate

Ben Sailor

Interests: multi-agent systems, machine learning, computer vision

Raegen Hofstetter

Interests: autonomous driving and simulation

Past Members

Hao Chen (Ph.D. 2023)

Wind Estimation Using Quadcopters


Asma Tabassum, Skydweller, (Ph.D. 2023)

IMPROVING HUMAN-VEHICLE INTERACTION STRATEGIES FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM OPERATIONS IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS


Max DeSantis, SwRI, (undergraduate research 2022)

Multi-agent systems, harsh environment robotics, distributed control.


Cooper Degner (Wentz scholar, undergraduate research 2022)

Indoor wind estimation, Autonomy in transportation and computer vision, Duckietown outreach activities


Collin Thornton, PlusAI, (Wentz & Goldwater scholar, undergraduate research 2021)

Autonomous golf cart, Robotic Arm manipulation, Application of AI to control systems; control system design for aerospace applications.


Kevin Coleman, Lockheed Martin, (M.S. 2020)

AUGMENTED INVARIANT-EKF DESIGNS FOR SIMULTANEOUS STATE AND DISTURBANCE ESTIMATION


Diego Colon (undergraduate research 2019)

Autonomous golf cart


Sam Allison, The Boeing Company, (M.S. 2019)

QUADCOPTER TRAJECTORY PREDICTION AND WIND ESTIMATION USING SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION


Eric Brinkman, Texas Instruments, (M.S. 2019)

DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND VALIDATION OF A LOW-COST MEASUREMENT SYSETM FOR RESIDENTIAL GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS


Victor Franco (McNair scholar 2018)

Aerial manipulators


Tanner Stokes (Undergraduate 2018)

Autonomous golf cart


Jonathan Harris (undergraduate research 2018)

Edison robots, outreach


Aditya Mulampally (Creative Component 2018)

Autonomous golf cart steering and speed controls


Sandesh Thapa, The Drone Racing League, (M.S. 2018)

COOPERATIVE AERIAL MANIPULATION WITH FORCE CONTROL AND ATTITUDE STABILIZATION


Kiran Muniraju (M.S. 2018)

Autonomous Golf cart, object detection


Jordan Daugherty, Northrop Grumman Corporation, (M.S. 2018)

MANEUVERING INTRUDER PASSIVE RANGING FOR DETECT-AND-AVOID


Asad Awan (M.S. 2017)

ESTIMATION AND OBSERVABILITY PROPERTIES OF RELATIVE STATE BETWEEN MULTI-VEHICLES IN GPS-DENIED ENVIRONMENT


Theodore Ramseyer, Tinker Air Force Base, (Creative Component 2016)

Design of an Android-based mobile robot