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.

• Four papers accepted for publication at ACC 2026!

• 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 multi-agent systems, robotics, human-robot interaction, game theory.  Strong background in math, dynamics and control is preferred. To apply, please send me your CV, transcripts (for PhD), and a brief statement of purpose.