Collaborative Robotics, Autonomy,
and Dynamics Lab

Our group works in the general area of autonomy, dynamics, controls, and robotics.  More specifically, we study how a group of robots can work collaboratively as a team.

• Goutam Das successfully defended his PhD! [Dec. 2025]

• James Berneburg's paper on reach-avoid game is accepted for publication in IEEE L-CSS! [Dec. 2025]

• CRADL's blimp course led by Kentaro and James Yang has successfully concluded! [Nov. 2025]

• Vi Rostobaya is presenting her poster on deceptive path planning at the Virginia Robotics Symposium! [Nov. 2025] 

• James Berneburg is presenting his work on adversarial graph traversal game at IROS! [Oct. 2025]

• Billy Qi joins the research team!  Welcome Billy! [Sep. 2024]

• We are going to compete at the DTR autonomous blimp competition at Lehigh! [Nov. 2023]

• Daigo is presenting at the Creative Convergence Workshop in celebration of Dr. Naomi Leonard's 60th birthday! [Oct. 2023]

• Our paper "Team Coordination on Graphs with State-Dependent Edge Costs" was nominated as Best Paper in Cognitive Robotics at IROS 2023! [Oct. 2023]

• GMU team won the Defend The Republic Blimp competition! [April. 2023]

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We are looking for a strongly motivated and talented PhD student / Postdoc to join our group! Potential research projects are in the areas of robot motion control and mechanism design.  Strong background in dynamics and control are required. To apply, please send me your CV, transcripts (for PhD), and a brief statement of purpose.