2024:
- November 2024: The CAIS Lab attends the Pittsburgh Robotics Discovery Day to showcase the lab’s work and network with academic and industry professionals in the robotics space
- October 2024: Ryan presented his research at the A2C2 Modeling Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2024) in Chicago, Illinois. Afterwards, Ryan and Ilya got to join Dr. Kira Barton’s lab from University of Michigan for dinner.
- October 2024: The CAIS Lab goes on a hike at Stone Valley and returns to state college for an Autumn Cookout!
- October 2024: CAIS Lab welcomes traveling scholar Joseph Alterbaum from the Technical University of Munich.
- September 2024: Jonghan presented his research at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2024) in Bari, Italy, joined by Oscar from Dr. Moore’s lab.
- August 2024: Congrats to Hongliang for passing the IE Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam!
- July 2024: Alanah presented her research at the 2024 Penn State OGEEP Summer Research Symposium.
- July 2024: CAIS Lab vs. Dr. Derek Hall’s Lab Basketball Game: What a game!
- June 2024: Ryan presented his research at the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) in Baltimore, Maryland. Congrats to Ryan for winning First Place in the student poster competition.
- June 2024: Yifei presented his research at the Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) in Knoxville.
- June 2024: CAIS Lab welcomes summer research intern Alanah Martinez from the University of New Mexico.
- May 2024: Jonghan, Alex, Yifei, and Hongliang presented their research at industryXchange 2024: Robotics in Pittsburgh.
- May 2024: Dr. Kovalenko presented the research at the Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES) 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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- May 2024: Hongliang presented his research at the Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium.
- May 2024: Congrats to CAIS Lab undergraduate researchers Victoria Lima and Hao Liu for graduating with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering!
- April 2024: The lab enjoys the semester-end potluck party with Dr. Meira-Goes’s labs!
- March 2024: Congrats to Jonghan for passing the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam!
- February 2024: The lab enjoys a fun bowling party!
- January 2024: CAIS Lab welcomes new undergraduate researchers Shixuan Sun, John Pimley, and Gregory Beal!
2023:
- December 2023: The lab enjoys the White Elephant and Christmas dinner with Dr. Fitzsimons’s and Dr. Meira-Goes’s labs!
- December 2023: Congrats to Mostafa for passing the ME Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam!
- November 2023: Dr. Kovalenko has been appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering!
- November 2023: Dr. Kovalenko visited the Competence Center in Manufacturing (CCM) at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) in São José dos Campos, Brazil. During the visit, Dr. Kovalenko presented research from the lab and ran a 3-day workshop on some of the software tools used in the lab.
- November 2023: Jonghan, Alex, Oscar, and Dr. Kovalenko attended the Pittsburgh Robotics Discovery Day. They showcased some of the recent research with robotic assembly and had great interactions with the robotics and automation community.
- October 2023: Oscar presented his research at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023) in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- October 2023: Jan from Technische Universität München visited the CAIS Lab and gave a great talk on Distributed Framework for Knowledge-Driven Root-Cause Analysis on Evolving Alarm Data. The lab also enjoyed lunch with Jan!
- August 2023: Dr. Kovalenko and Hongliang presented their research at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) in Auckland, New Zealand.
- August 2023: Dr. Kovalenko presented the research at the 2023 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) in Bridgetown, Barbados.
- August 2023: Congrats to CAIS Lab researcher Sujani Patel for graduating with M.S. in Mechanical Engineering!
- June 2023: The lab enjoys lunch with Dr. Meira-Góes and visitors!
- June 2023: Mostafa presented his research at the 2023 American Control Conference in San Diego, CA.
- May 2023: Our papers “Ontology-Based Feedback to Improve Runtime Control for Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems” and “A System-Level Energy Efficient Digital Twin Framework for Runtime Control of Batch Manufacturing Processes” have been accepted for IEEE CASE 2023. Congratulations!
- May 2023: CAIS Lab launched at Leonhard 107. Check out the CAIS Lab page for more details!
- May 2023: CAIS Lab welcomes new undergraduate researcher Alex Evans.
- May 2023: Congrats to CAIS Lab undergraduate researchers Oscar Wu and Chaeeun Kim for graduating with the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering!
- April 2023: Our paper “A Model Predictive Control Framework for Improving Risk-Tolerance of Manufacturing Systems” has been accepted for CCTA 2023.
- March 2023: CAIS Lab welcomes new undergraduate researcher Sufian.
- January 2023: Our paper “Risk-Averse Model Predictive Control for Priced Timed Automata” has been accepted for ACC 2023.
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