Professor
Dr. Maruthi R. Akella
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Cockrell Family Chair #19 in Engineering,
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE), Room 3.224
(512) 471-9493
(512) 471-3788 (fax)
makella(at)mail(dot)utexas(dot)edu
Dr. Akella specializes in the control of complex dynamical systems that are subject to large scale nonlinearities and uncertainties. He is the founding director for the Center for Autonomous Air Mobility (CAAM).
Graduate Students
Mihir Vedantam
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE), Room 3.112
vedantam(dot)mihir(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: optimal control, machine learning, decision-making, modeling
Richard Hoobler
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
rhoobler(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: guidance, optimization, machine learning
Yoonjae “Jesse” Lee
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
yol033(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: multi-agent systems, autonomous vehicles, game theory, distributed control, optimal control
Andrew Miller
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
andrew(dot)miller(at)austin(dot)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: attitude estimation and control, adaptive control
Edward Jung
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
edward(dot)jung(at)austin(dot)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: optimal control, GNC, RPODU, nonlinear dynamics and control
Christopher Busic
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
cbusic(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: spacecraft autonomy, EDL GNC, nonlinear dynamics and control
Anand Agrawal
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
aagrawal66(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: spacecraft GNC, multi-agent systems, spacecraft and trajectory design, machine learning
Donghae Kim
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
donghae(dot)kim(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: path planning, optimal control, system safety, aircraft upset, multi-agent systems
Anabel Soria Carro
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
anabelsoriacarro(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: mission and trajectory design, spacecraft GNC, nonlinear dynamics and control
Pete Lealiiee
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
petelealiieejr4(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: nonlinear dynamics and control, adaptive control, optimal control, UAVs and autonomous robotic systems
Kyle Shiller
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
kyle(dot)shiller(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: spacecraft rendezvous and proximity operations, relative navigation and path planning, optimization
Anna Hagen
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
annahagen(dot)ah(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: hypersonic GNC, autonomous systems, control state estimation
Akhilesh Mulgund
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
akhilesh(dot)mulgund(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: relative navigation, spacecraft GNC, autonomous systems, nonlinear dynamics and control
Visiting Students
Stefano Coco
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
stefano(dot)coco(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: mission and trajectory design, spacecraft dynamics and control
Simone Amorosino
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Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
simone(dot)amorosino(at)utexas(dot)edu
Research Interests: trajectory design, spacecraft GNC, orbital mechanics
Undergraduate Students
Antonio O Jimenez
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Undergraduate Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE)
Robots
Gollum
![](https://sites.utexas.edu/cdus/files/2019/09/gollum_scall.png)
Ground Rover
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE), Room 4.118
Research Interests: MY PRECIOUS
Bilbo
![](https://sites.utexas.edu/cdus/files/2019/09/bilbo_small.png)
Quadcopter
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE), Room 4.118
Research Interests: flying high, swarming, mapping, occasionally crashing
Frodo
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Quadcopter
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE), Room 4.118
Research Interests: taking over from Bilbo
Mikicopter
![](https://sites.utexas.edu/cdus/files/2019/10/rekr.jpg)
Quadcopter
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE), Room 4.118
Research Interests: chilling in retirement
Unibot
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Ground Rover
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE), Room 4.118
Research Interests: chilling in retirement
Rekr
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Ground Rover
Aerospace Engineering Building (ASE), Room 4.118
Research Interests: chilling in retirement