November 23, 2011 [Funding]

Prof. Jinjun Shan was awarded a NSERC Engage Grant to investigate Novel Navigation Strategies for Multiple Robot Formation. Our industry partner is Dr Robot Inc.

September 1, 2011 [Members]

Mr. Piotr Wenderski, one of SDCNLab graduate alumni, started a new engineer job at EADS Astrium, Friedrichshafen. All the best, Piotr!

September 1, 2011 [Members]

In the past summer, Donald Ellison, a M.Sc. student from UIUC Aerospace Engineering, has worked in SDCNLab on lunar penetrator simulation. Shawn, Gowry, Latheepan from York also worked in our lab on various projects.

Donald Ellison

August 10, 2011 [Members]

Dr. Yuan Ren joined SDCNLab as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. He will work on Lunar Transfer Trajectory Design and Optimization. Welcome, Yuan!

August 5 - 12, 2011 [Conference]

Prof. Jinjun Shan attended 2011 AIAA GNC conference in Portland, Oregon. Prof. Shan presented two papers on this conference: Active Flatness Fuzzy Logic Control of Space Membrane Structure; Experimental Study on Combining a Simple Input Shaper and Adaptive Positive Position Feedback Control.

August 1, 2011 [Funding]

Prof. Jinjun Shan together with MPB Communications Inc. won a CSA contract on Canadian Lunar Micro Rover Mission. Our team also includes University of Surrey, University of Hawaii, MDA, NGC, etc. SDCNLab will be responsible for lunar transfer trajectory design, optimization and soft-landing strategies.

June 29 - July 1, 2011 [Conference]

Prof. Jinjun Shan and Ryan Orszulik attended 2011 American Control Conference in San Francisco. Ryan presented our work on Multi-Mode Adaptive Positive Position Feedback: An Experimental Study.

June 8 - 25, 2011 [Members]

During this period, Prof. Shan was invited to give talks at several universities in China, including Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin University of Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Jiangnan University. Here are some pictures.

http://news.hit.edu.cn/articles/2011/06-16/06085842.htm

http://www.gongxue.cn/hangjianxueyuan/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=106854

http://newsweb.nuaa.edu.cn/xsjw/2016102923.htm

http://jw.jiangnan.edu.cn/ViewInfo.asp?id=1042

June 5 - 9, 2011 [Conference]

Prof. Jinjun Shan attended 2011 CANCAM conference in Vancouver, BC. Prof. Shan presented one paper on Vibration-Free Trajectory Generation for Flexible Manipulator.

April 13, 2011 [Funding]

Prof. Jinjun Shan was awarded a NSERC Engage Grant to investigate Dynamics modeling of smart actuator system with hysteresis. Our industry partner is MPB Communications Inc.

April 5, 2011 [Project/Research]

SDCNLab will present one paper on 2011 American Control Conference (ACC) and two papers on 2011 AIAA GNC.

March 23, 2011 [Members]

Prof. Jinjun Shan has been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2011.