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Prof. Guanrui Li Is Serving as an Associate Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and UAVs

Prof. Guanrui Li has joined the leadership of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as an Associate Chair. The technical committee brings together researchers, practitioners, students, and industry working across aerial robotics, and organizes workshops and community events at major robotics conferences such as ICRA.

Nov 1, 2026 1 min read

ACP Lab Led the Why Rust for Robotics Workshop at IROS 2026

Our lab led the full day workshop “Why Rust for Robotics: A Perspective From Industry” at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh on September 27, 2026, with Prof. Guanrui Li serving as the lead organizer. The program featured eight invited talks, a panel discussion, live code demonstrations, and a poster session on why industry teams are adopting Rust for robotics software and what academia can learn from them. The workshop builds on the Rust for Robotics workshop that our lab led at ICRA 2025.

Sep 27, 2026 1 min read

Prof. Guanrui Li Organized the Multi-Robot Autonomy Workshop at the 2026 NSF FRR Robotics Annual Meeting

Prof. Guanrui Li organized the Multi-Robot Autonomy Workshop at the 2026 NSF FRR Robotics Annual Meeting, held on September 25 and 26 in Pittsburgh. The workshop examined the future of multi-robot autonomy through the interplay of perception, mapping, learning, and planning.

Sep 26, 2026 1 min read

Ethan Chandler Named a 2026–2027 Amazon Robotics Fellow

Congratulations to Ethan Chandler, a Ph.D. student in the ACP Lab, on being selected as a 2026–2027 Amazon Robotics Fellowship recipient! Ethan’s research develops optimal control methods for underactuated systems such as quadrotors and legged robots. His new algebraic Riccati equation for spectrally discretized optimal control problems reduces the solve-time complexity from cubic to linear, enabling highly accurate agile motion, with quadrotor experiments reaching sub-centimeter accuracy at speeds above 10 m/s.

Sep 3, 2026 1 min read

Ethan Chandler Named a 2026–2027 Amazon Robotics Fellow

1 paper accepted by RA-L!

Our work on Vision-Based Tactile Model Predictive Control for robotic contour following has been accepted by by RA-L!!

May 13, 2026 1 min read

1 paper accepted by ICRA!

Our work on Trajectory Planning Using Safe Ellipsoidal Corridors as Projections of Orthogonal Trust Regions has been accepted by ICRA!

Feb 3, 2026 1 min read

1 paper accepted by RA-L!

Our work on Polytopic Optimal Planning for Collision-Free Cable-Suspended Aerial Payload Transportation for cable-suspended payload has been accepted by RA-L!

Feb 1, 2026 1 min read

1 paper accepted by RA-L!

Our work on ES-HPC-MPC: Exponentially Stable Hybrid Perception Constrained MPC for Quadrotor with Suspended Payloads has been accepted by RA-L!

Oct 25, 2025 1 min read

1 paper accepted by RA-L!

Our work on DQ-NMPC: Dual-Quaternion NMPC for Quadrotor Flight has been accepted by RA-L!

Oct 23, 2025 1 min read

Laasya Kodandaramu won Glenn Yee Fall 2025 Project Award!

One of our Robotics Engineering graduate student - Laasya Kodandaramu won Glenn Yee Fall 2025 Project Award for Safe Optimal Control for Quadrotor Swarms project.

Oct 1, 2025 1 min read