Systems & Controls Groupbs & Laboratories

Systems & Controls Groups and Laboratories

Associated Centers, Groups, and Laboratories

Autonomous Systems & Controls Laboratory
BioImaging Systems Laboratory
Digital Signal Processing Research Laboratory
Intelligent Control Group
Motion Control Systems Research Group
Virginia Active Combustion Control Group

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Faculty Members Conducting Research in Systems & Controls

Faculty Conducting Research in Related Areas

Yue Wang

Autonomous Systems & Controls Laboratory (website)

CAD drawings of MOD0, a prototype of the Virginia Tech Miniature Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.

Research is focused on the development of enabling technologies for rapid and adaptive marine reconnaissance. projects include deploying a platoon of AUVs in coastal waters to aid marine scientists in studying the effects of runoff, deploying AUVs in an energetic river system to help the U.S. Navy develop search, survey, and tracking methods.

BioImaging Systems Laboratory (contact)

Delving into bioimaging issues, including image reconstruction and analysis, biomedical imaging, algorithms, wave propagation, and robotic applications in medicine.

Digital Signal Processing Research Laboratory (DSPRL website)

The DSPRL is investigating - in collaboration with SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego - non-Wiener effects that occur in adaptive filtering involving narrowband signals. Extensions to array signal processing are under way. Other projects include direction of arrival estimation, speech coding, accelerating convergence of adaptive algorithms, and EEG modeling.

Intelligent Control Group

Current research is related to the small scale intelligent vehicle project, which involves developing a scale model platform for the rapid prototyping and testing of ITS systems and technologies. Other goals include providing functional systems for educational museums and developing future technologies that will help the public adapt to rapid changes in the automotive industry, such as autonomous vehicles.

Virginia Active Combustion Control Group (VACCG website)

The combustion test bed in the ME department that is used to study the dynamics of flames.

This interdisciplinary group is studying the interaction of combustion and acoustics often found in power generation turbines and aircraft engines. The primary goals of active combustion control are to reduce the occurrence of thermoacoustic instabilities and minimize emissions of lean, pre-vaporized, premixed and lean direct injection combustors.