VSCL Graduate Research Assistant Han-Hsun “Jack” Lu (M.S. National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.) was invited to speak at the GEOSAT seminar series. Lu discussed the different challenges facing engineering and vehicle support for data science collection missions. Talking points included information about the recently concluded precision agriculture missions conducted by VSCL from 2015-2017. A seminar recap was written by GEOSAT and may be found here.
The Texas A&M University VSCL and Land Air Space Robotics Laboratory (LASR) have been subcontracted through Barron Associates to support a new Air Force Research Laboratory program on autonomous aerial refueling of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV). VSCL has 15 years of experience and a patent on Autonomous Aerial Refueling of UAVs, and together with LASR will provide the UAV simulations, control laws, and sensor selection and modeling. The Texas A&M University personnel are PI Dr. John Valasek and Co-PI Dr. Majji Manoranjan, both of the Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering Department. Working on this project is Master of Engineering student Ezekiel Bowden (B. S. Aerospace Engineering ‘17, Texas A&M University).
