Course Overview
New for 2023!
Student Research Participants (RPs) in the program will learn about Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles. Concepts related to increasing autonomy of these vehicles and their multifarious use in modern human society will be covered. RPs will get to know about the selection and use of various onboard sensors and microcontrollers based on size, weight and power (SWaP) constraints for small quadrotor and hexarotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). RPs will also learn about coding GNC algorithms for onboard microcontrollers using C/C++ and/or Python on the Robot Operating System (ROS). Finally, they will be able to observe autonomous flight experiments conducted with these UAVs in our facility, the Autonomous Unmanned Systems Laboratory.
Learning Objectives
- To learn about the application-specific objectives of GNC schemes for autonomous operations of unmanned vehicles (2 days);
- To learn about selection of hardware sensors and processors for small rotorcraft UAVs (1 day);
- To learn about coding GNC algorithms for UAVs using ROS (4 days); and
- To learn how to conduct experiments in an indoor environment to test and validate the performance of GNC schemes (3 days).
The goal of this short course is to give RPs research experience and basic understanding of autonomous operations of unmanned vehicles, especially UAVs. RPs will work with Dr. Sanyal and his research students and post-doctoral scholar each working day, to go through the stages in implementing autonomous guidance, navigation and control schemes on a small rotorcraft UAV in an indoor laboratory environment, as outlined in the previous paragraph.
Course Information
Course Prefix and Number: TBD
Format: On Campus (at Syracuse University)
Eligibility: Students must be of rising high school junior or senior status – or a 2023 high school graduate. Students must be from a partner organization of the Office of Pre-College Programs.
Credit: Noncredit
Grading: Pass/Fail
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Program rates are subject to change and will be approved by the board of trustees. Discounts and scholarships are also available.
Program Information
Summer College – Research Immersions: Students work closely with research faculty on existing and new faculty led research projects both online and on campus.
Course Dates and Details
| Program | Course Dates | Synchronous Class Time (Eastern Time) | Credit/Noncredit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer College – Research Immersions | 2-Week Session III: Monday, July 31 – Friday, August 11, 2023 | MTWThF; 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Noncredit | Open |
Typical Day
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Faculty Bio
Amit K. Sanyal
Amit Sanyal obtained the B.Tech. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1999. He completed his MS in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A& M University in 2001, where he received the Distinguished Graduate Student Masters Research Award. He obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and MS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2004 and 2005 respectively and was recipient of an Engineering Academic Scholar Certificate. During 2005-2006, he was a post-doctoral research associate at Arizona State University. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Hawaii and at New Mexico State University, prior to joining as a faculty in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University in 2015. He develops and applies techniques from geometric mechanics, nonlinear and geometric control, and continuous and discrete-time Lagrangian/Hamiltonian systems to dynamics modeling, guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned and autonomous systems. His research has been supported by NSF, NASA and the AF Office of Scientific Research, along with private companies like the Semiconductor Research Corporation. He is a senior member of AIAA and IEEE, and a member of ASME and SIAM.