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UAV Controller Evaluation Framework is Presented at AIAA Aviation 2024
Aug. 15, 2024—Ph.D. student Austin Coursey recently presented his work “An Experimental Framework for Evaluating the Safety and Robustness of UAV Controllers” at the 2024 AIAA Aviation Forum. This work outlines a simple framework that facilitates evaluating and comparing the safety of UAV controllers. This work was inspired by results from the lab’s NASA System-Wide Safety project....
Austin Coursey is Awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship
Aug. 15, 2024—Austin Coursey, a Ph.D. student in the lab, was recently awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship will fund the next 3 years of his research, as he studies ways to make lifelong, continual reinforcement learning agents safer! Read more about this in the post by the Vanderbilt School of Engineering! https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/2024/05/16/ten-vanderbilt-engineering-students-awarded-prestigious-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships/